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ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Fix heap overflow in bytes_ext put/get
authorPeter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 9 Jun 2026 08:34:58 +0000 (11:34 +0300)
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Tue, 9 Jun 2026 17:41:14 +0000 (18:41 +0100)
commitfd46668d538993218eea19c6925c868ac0f2630c
tree60e76846d0d70f9fdecf159170b5dd0d4d0d3dae
parent1f97760417b5faa60e9642fd0ed61eb17d0b1b39
ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Fix heap overflow in bytes_ext put/get

The ipc_control_data buffer is allocated as kzalloc(max_size), where
max_size covers the entire struct sof_ipc_ctrl_data including its
flexible array payload. However, the bounds checks in bytes_ext_put
and _bytes_ext_get compared user data lengths against max_size
directly, ignoring that cdata->data sits at an offset of
sizeof(struct sof_ipc_ctrl_data) bytes into the allocation.

This allowed writing up to sizeof(struct sof_ipc_ctrl_data) bytes past
the end of the heap buffer from unprivileged userspace via the ALSA TLV
kcontrol interface, and similarly allowed over-reading adjacent heap
data on the get path.

Fix all bounds checks to subtract sizeof(*cdata) from max_size so they
reflect the actual space available at the cdata->data offset. Also fix
the error-path restore in bytes_ext_put which wrote to cdata->data
instead of cdata, causing the same overflow.

Fixes: 67ec2a091630 ("ASoC: SOF: Add bytes_ext control IPC ops for IPC3")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609083458.31193-7-peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
sound/soc/sof/ipc3-control.c