CVE-2026-80970: ALSA: FCP: do not copy out an uninitialised init response

CVE-2026-80970: ALSA: FCP: do not copy out an uninitialised init response

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: FCP: do not copy out an uninitialised init response

fcp_ioctl_init() allocates its response buffer with kmalloc() and copies
the whole buffer back to userspace:

	buf_size = init.step0_resp_size + init.step2_resp_size;

	void *resp __free(kfree) =
		kmalloc(buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
	...
	if (copy_to_user(arg->resp, resp, buf_size))
		return -EFAULT;

Nothing clears the buffer, and the only writer of its leading
step0_resp_size bytes is the step-0 control transfer:

	err = snd_usb_ctl_msg(dev, usb_rcvctrlpipe(dev, 0),
		FCP_USB_REQ_STEP0,
		USB_RECIP_INTERFACE | USB_TYPE_CLASS | USB_DIR_IN,
		0, private->bInterfaceNumber,
		step0_resp, private->step0_resp_size);
	if (err < 0)
		return err;

usb_fill_control_urb() does not set URB_SHORT_NOT_OK, so a short or
zero-length data stage completes with status 0 and snd_usb_ctl_msg()
returns a small actual_length.  The only check is err < 0, so a short
transfer is accepted as success.

snd_usb_ctl_msg() copies the full size back unconditionally:

	buf = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_KERNEL);
	...
	memcpy(data, buf, size);

Bytes the device never wrote are therefore restored into resp unchanged
and copied to userspace.  step0_resp_size and step2_resp_size are each
validated only to 1..255, so the caller also picks the slab cache, from
kmalloc-8 up to kmalloc-512.

On 7.2.0-rc5 (arm64), device answering step 0 with a zero-length data
stage, s0 = s2 = 255:

  # init_on_alloc off, no spray
  step0 window [0,255): nonzero=94/255
  000: 00 80 60 06 00 00 ff ff 18 00 00 00 57 01 ea 01
  010: 08 78 22 13 00 00 ff ff a8 c4 5f 80 00 80 ff ff

  # same kernel, kmalloc-512 pre-seeded with an 8-byte tag
  step0 window [0,255): nonzero=219/255  tagbytes=232

  # identical run, init_on_alloc=1
  step0 window [0,255): nonzero=0/255  tagbytes=0

  # all three runs
  step2 window [255,510): device words matched=62/62

a8 c4 5f 80 00 80 ff ff is the little-endian kernel text address
ffff8000805fc4a8.  The step-2 window is unaffected, so the disclosure is
exactly the step-0 region.

Zero the buffer, and require the step-0 transfer to deliver the full
step0_resp_size bytes so a short data stage is reported as an error.

Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-80970 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.14 with commit 46757a3e7d50dac923888e7fbe68377736f13c70 and fixed in 7.2.4 with commit 29ab2df278ab4f1d238cd9c1c393ee00db175cba
	Issue introduced in 6.14 with commit 46757a3e7d50dac923888e7fbe68377736f13c70 and fixed in 7.3-rc1 with commit 4335e387786479889e6db691fe06d345e52ea536

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-80970
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	sound/usb/fcp.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29ab2df278ab4f1d238cd9c1c393ee00db175cba
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4335e387786479889e6db691fe06d345e52ea536