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Patch "ALSA: echoaudio: Fix memory allocation" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

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

ALSA: echoaudio: Fix memory allocation

to the 4.6-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-echoaudio-fix-memory-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

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

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From 9c6795a9b3cbb56a9fbfaf43909c5c22999ba317 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 21:06:51 +0200
Subject: ALSA: echoaudio: Fix memory allocation

From: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>

commit 9c6795a9b3cbb56a9fbfaf43909c5c22999ba317 upstream.

'commpage_bak' is allocated with 'sizeof(struct echoaudio)' bytes. We then copy 'sizeof(struct comm_page)' bytes in it.
On my system, smatch complains because one is 2960 and the other is 3072.

This would result in memory corruption or a oops.

---
 sound/pci/echoaudio/echoaudio.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
sound/pci/echoaudio/echoaudio.c +2 -2
@@ -2200,11 +2200,11 @@ static int snd_echo_resume(struct device
 	u32 pipe_alloc_mask;
 	int err;
 
-	commpage_bak = kmalloc(sizeof(struct echoaudio), GFP_KERNEL);
+	commpage_bak = kmalloc(sizeof(*commpage), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (commpage_bak == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	commpage = chip->comm_page;
-	memcpy(commpage_bak, commpage, sizeof(struct comm_page));
+	memcpy(commpage_bak, commpage, sizeof(*commpage));
 
 	err = init_hw(chip, chip->pci->device, chip->pci->subsystem_device);
 	if (err < 0) {

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

queue-4.6/alsa-echoaudio-fix-memory-allocation.patch