On 03/05/2013 04:05 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 4 Mar 2013 17:02:59 -0500,
> Christine Spang wrote:
>> Having snd_BUG_ON() only evaluate its conditional when CONFIG_SND_DEBUG
>> is set leads to frequent bugs, since other similar macros in the kernel
>> have different behavior. Let's make snd_BUG_ON() act like those macros
>> so it will stop being accidentally misused.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christine Spang <[email protected]>
> Sounds reasonable. The dependency on CONFIG_SND_DEBUG was for
> allowing more optimization, but since we use this for more places than
> expected, this change would be safer indeed.
>
> If no one has objection, I'll apply it for 3.10 kernel.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi
This ought to be considered for 3.9 and stable@ as
well. It fixes NULL derefs all over the place, e.g.
sound/core/device.c:126
if (snd_BUG_ON(!card || !device_data))
return -ENXIO;
list_for_each_entry(dev, &card->devices, list) {
[...]
If card == NULL and CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is off, this code will NULL deref.
There are some 600 other instances of snd_BUG_ON() being used dubiously
in the current tree. Some of these instances even perform extra cleanup
before returning in error conditions. It's really broken with
CONFIG_SND_DEBUG off, and no major distro ships production kernels with
this setting enabled.
Christine
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