Patch "ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_tinterrupt" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_tinterrupt

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-events-via-snd_timer_user_tinterrupt.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Kangjie Lu <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:44:32 -0400
Subject: ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_tinterrupt
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From: Kangjie Lu <[email protected]>

commit e4ec8cc8039a7063e24204299b462bd1383184a5 upstream.

The stack object “r1” has a total size of 32 bytes. Its field “event” and “val” both contain 4 bytes padding. These 8 bytes padding bytes are sent to user without being initialized.

---
 sound/core/timer.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -1243,6 +1243,7 @@ static void snd_timer_user_tinterrupt(st
 	}
 	if ((tu->filter & (1 << SNDRV_TIMER_EVENT_RESOLUTION)) &&
 	    tu->last_resolution != resolution) {
+		memset(&r1, 0, sizeof(r1));
 		r1.event = SNDRV_TIMER_EVENT_RESOLUTION;
 		r1.tstamp = tstamp;
 		r1.val = resolution;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-events-via-snd_timer_user_ccallback.patch queue-3.14/alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-sndrv_timer_ioctl_params.patch queue-3.14/alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-events-via-snd_timer_user_tinterrupt.patch