[PATCH v2 1/2] ALSA: usb-audio: Bound packet copies by the PCM buffer size

From: Sinan Turunc

Date: Mon Oct 26 2026 - 18:37:15 EST


retire_capture_urb() and prepare_playback_urb() assume that one USB
packet never carries more data than the whole ALSA ring buffer. Nothing
enforces that: the packet size comes from the device (wMaxPacketSize,
and curpacksize == maxpacksize when the class-specific endpoint
descriptor sets MaxPacketsOnly), while the PCM hardware constraints only
require 64-byte periods, two periods and a period time of one data
interval. An 8 kHz mono U8 stream on a 128-byte buffer is legal, and a
full-speed device can send 1023-byte packets into it.

On the first oversized packet hwptr_done is wrapped once and stays
beyond buffer_bytes (895 for 1023 bytes into 128). On the next packet
the wrap arithmetic in the copy path computes

bytes1 = subs->buffer_bytes - oldptr

with oldptr > buffer_bytes, so bytes1 wraps to about 4 GB and memcpy()
runs off the end of the URB buffer and of the vmalloc'd DMA buffer:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in retire_capture_urb+0x251/0x870
Read of size 4294966529 at addr ffff88800c1e2800 by task vhci_rx/82

and for playback, where copy_to_urb() has the same shape:

BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in copy_to_urb.isra.0+0x188/0x430
Read of size 4294966529 at addr ffffc9000004537f by task vhci_rx/79
prepare_playback_urb+0x98a/0x1fc0

Truncate an oversized capture packet to the buffer size, and stop
filling a playback URB once it holds a whole buffer. With bytes <=
buffer_bytes the single wrap of hwptr_done and the two-part memcpy()
in both copy paths stay inside the buffer. A device whose packets do
not fit the buffer at all was never going to play correctly anyway.

Reproduced on 7.3-rc7 with a USB/IP device (dummy_hcd cannot carry
isochronous data) advertising a UAC1 endpoint with MaxPacketsOnly and
wMaxPacketSize 1023, and a PCM client using period_size 64, periods 2.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sinan Turunc <enscrpt@xxxxx>
---
v2: From and Signed-off-by now carry my real name. No code change.

sound/usb/pcm.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/usb/pcm.c b/sound/usb/pcm.c
index 682b6c1fe76..c2f7b08607a 100644
--- a/sound/usb/pcm.c
+++ b/sound/usb/pcm.c
@@ -1343,6 +1343,18 @@ static void retire_capture_urb(struct snd_usb_substream *subs,
bytes -= adj;
subs->stream_offset_adj -= adj;
}
+ /*
+ * A packet can be as large as the endpoint's maxpacksize, which
+ * the device chooses, while the ring buffer can be as small as
+ * two 64-byte periods. The hwptr_done wrap below handles one
+ * wrap only, so never take more than one buffer from a packet.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(bytes > subs->buffer_bytes)) {
+ dev_warn_ratelimited(&subs->dev->dev,
+ "%u-byte packet exceeds %u-byte buffer, truncating\n",
+ bytes, subs->buffer_bytes);
+ bytes = subs->buffer_bytes;
+ }
frames = bytes / stride;
if (!subs->txfr_quirk)
bytes = frames * stride;
@@ -1553,8 +1565,14 @@ static int prepare_playback_urb(struct snd_usb_substream *subs,

for (i = 0; i < ctx->packets; i++) {
counts = snd_usb_endpoint_next_packet_size(ep, ctx, i, avail);
+ /*
+ * Bound by the ring buffer as well as by the URB:
+ * copy_to_urb() wraps hwptr_done once, so one URB must
+ * never carry more than the whole buffer.
+ */
if (counts < 0 ||
- (frames + counts) * stride > ctx->buffer_size)
+ (frames + counts) * stride > ctx->buffer_size ||
+ (frames + counts) * stride > subs->buffer_bytes)
break;
/* set up descriptor */
urb->iso_frame_desc[i].offset = frames * stride;
--
2.56.0