From: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
To: perex@perex.cz, tiwai@suse.com
Cc: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
federico.kirschbaum@xbow.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write on Type II inbound URBs
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 10:34:41 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260805013441.38245-1-baul.lee@xbow.com> (raw)
data_ep_set_params() sizes each URB transfer buffer before it adds the
Format Type II transfer delimiter:
u->packets = urb_packs;
u->buffer_size = maxsize * u->packets;
if (fmt->fmt_type == UAC_FORMAT_TYPE_II)
u->packets++; /* for transfer delimiter */
u->urb = usb_alloc_urb(u->packets, GFP_KERNEL);
buffer_size is computed from the pre-increment packet count and never
recomputed, so for a Type II endpoint the buffer is one packet short of
the packet count the URB is built with.
prepare_inbound_urb() then lays out one iso frame per packet and never
consults buffer_size:
offs = 0;
for (i = 0; i < urb_ctx->packets; i++) {
urb->iso_frame_desc[i].offset = offs;
urb->iso_frame_desc[i].length = ep->curpacksize;
offs += ep->curpacksize;
}
urb->transfer_buffer_length = offs;
urb->number_of_packets = urb_ctx->packets;
The last descriptor therefore points one packet past the end of the
transfer buffer, where the host controller writes device data on every
inbound transfer. prepare_silent_urb() and prepare_playback_urb() bound
their fill loops by ctx->buffer_size, so only capture is affected.
fmt_type comes from the device's audio streaming descriptors, so any
device advertising a Type II capture format hits this once userspace sets
hw_params on the stream.
KASAN on 7.2.0-rc5 (arm64) with a dummy_hcd/raw-gadget device, one report
per inbound transfer:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in dummy_timer
Write of size 64 at addr ffff0000186171c0 by task cons02/166
__asan_memcpy
dummy_timer
hrtimer_run_softirq
Allocated by task 166:
usb_alloc_coherent
snd_usb_endpoint_set_params
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
allocated 64-byte region [ffff000018617180, ffff0000186171c0)
Compute buffer_size after the delimiter packet has been accounted for,
and bound the fill loop by buffer_size, as prepare_silent_urb() already
does on the outbound side. This grows every Type II URB allocation by
one maxsize packet.
Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
Fixes: 8fdff6a319e7 ("ALSA: snd-usb: implement new endpoint streaming model")
Reported-by: Federico Kirschbaum <federico.kirschbaum@xbow.com>
Reported-by: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
---
sound/usb/endpoint.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/usb/endpoint.c b/sound/usb/endpoint.c
index dca06ba1c67e..a1d449f2a342 100644
--- a/sound/usb/endpoint.c
+++ b/sound/usb/endpoint.c
@@ -385,13 +385,15 @@ static int prepare_inbound_urb(struct snd_usb_endpoint *ep,
case SND_USB_ENDPOINT_TYPE_DATA:
offs = 0;
for (i = 0; i < urb_ctx->packets; i++) {
+ if (offs + ep->curpacksize > urb_ctx->buffer_size)
+ break;
urb->iso_frame_desc[i].offset = offs;
urb->iso_frame_desc[i].length = ep->curpacksize;
offs += ep->curpacksize;
}
urb->transfer_buffer_length = offs;
- urb->number_of_packets = urb_ctx->packets;
+ urb->number_of_packets = i;
break;
case SND_USB_ENDPOINT_TYPE_SYNC:
@@ -1243,10 +1245,10 @@ static int data_ep_set_params(struct snd_usb_endpoint *ep)
u->index = i;
u->ep = ep;
u->packets = urb_packs;
- u->buffer_size = maxsize * u->packets;
if (fmt->fmt_type == UAC_FORMAT_TYPE_II)
u->packets++; /* for transfer delimiter */
+ u->buffer_size = maxsize * u->packets;
u->urb = usb_alloc_urb(u->packets, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!u->urb)
goto out_of_memory;
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
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2026-08-05 1:34 Baul Lee [this message]
2026-08-05 7:35 ` [PATCH] ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write on Type II inbound URBs Takashi Iwai
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