Re: [PATCH] ALSA: usb-audio: fix possible hang and overflow in parse_uac2_sample_rate_range()

From: Xi Wang
Date: Sun Jan 08 2012 - 07:45:41 EST


On Jan 8, 2012, at 4:09 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> As of now, I have little time to evaluate, so I might have missed
> something, but I wonder whether
>
> /* avoid overflow */
> if (nr_rates == KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE / sizeof(int))
> break;
>
> is the best way to check. This looks ugly to me.
> If we need to limit the number of rates, better to define some proper
> numbers as the upper limit. And then, it should warn, not only
> breaking loop.

Thanks for looking into this. Yeah, I agree using something like
MAX_NR_RATES is better. Is 65535 okay or do we need a larger limit?

- xi
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