linux/sound/core
Takashi Sakamoto 66c6d1ef86 ALSA: control: Add memory consumption limit to user controls
ALSA control interface allows users to add arbitrary control elements
(called "user controls" or "user elements"), and its resource usage is
limited just by the max number of control sets (currently 32).  This
limit, however, is quite loose: each allocation of control set may
have 1028 elements, and each element may have up to 512 bytes (ILP32) or
1024 bytes (LP64) of value data. Moreover, each control set may contain
the enum strings and TLV data, which can be up to 64kB and 128kB,
respectively.  Totally, the whole memory consumption may go over 38MB --
it's quite large, and we'd rather like to reduce the size.

OTOH, there have been other requests even to increase the max number
of user elements; e.g. ALSA firewire stack require the more user
controls, hence we want to raise the bar, too.

For satisfying both requirements, this patch changes the management of
user controls: instead of setting the upper limit of the number of
user controls, we check the actual memory allocation size and set the
upper limit of the total allocation in bytes.  As long as the memory
consumption stays below the limit, more user controls are allowed than
the current limit 32. At the same time, we set the lower limit (8MB)
as default than the current theoretical limit, in order to lower the
risk of DoS.

As a compromise for lowering the default limit, now the actual memory
limit is defined as a module option, 'max_user_ctl_alloc_size', so that
user can increase/decrease the limit if really needed, too.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/s5htur3zl5e.wl-tiwai@suse.de
Co-developed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Tested-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408103149.40357-1-o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2021-04-08 13:31:03 +02:00
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oss ALSA: core: avoid -Wempty-body warnings 2021-03-22 12:26:00 +01:00
seq Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next 2021-01-18 17:39:23 +01:00
compress_offload.c ALSA: Convert strlcpy to strscpy when return value is unused 2021-01-08 09:30:05 +01:00
control_compat.c ALSA: compat_ioctl: avoid compat_alloc_user_space 2020-09-21 10:37:07 +02:00
control_led.c ALSA: control - off by one in store_mode() 2021-04-06 11:30:53 +02:00
control.c ALSA: control: Add memory consumption limit to user controls 2021-04-08 13:31:03 +02:00
ctljack.c ALSA: Convert strlcpy to strscpy when return value is unused 2021-01-08 09:30:05 +01:00
device.c ALSA: core: Add snd_device_get_state() helper 2020-03-23 18:09:19 +01:00
hrtimer.c ALSA: timer: Replace tasklet with work 2020-09-09 18:32:52 +02:00
hwdep_compat.c ALSA: compat_ioctl: avoid compat_alloc_user_space 2020-09-21 10:37:07 +02:00
hwdep.c ALSA: Convert strlcpy to strscpy when return value is unused 2021-01-08 09:30:05 +01:00
info_oss.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156 2019-05-30 11:26:35 -07:00
info.c ALSA: info: Drop WARN_ON() from buffer NULL sanity check 2020-07-17 10:59:38 +02:00
init.c ALSA: core: remove redundant spin_lock pair in snd_card_disconnect 2021-03-30 13:50:15 +02:00
isadma.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156 2019-05-30 11:26:35 -07:00
jack.c ALSA: jack: implement software jack injection via debugfs 2021-02-02 10:37:07 +01:00
Kconfig ALSA: control - add generic LED trigger module as the new control layer 2021-03-30 15:33:58 +02:00
Makefile ALSA: control - add generic LED trigger module as the new control layer 2021-03-30 15:33:58 +02:00
memalloc.c ALSA: memalloc: Align buffer allocations in page size 2020-12-18 17:09:10 +01:00
memory.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156 2019-05-30 11:26:35 -07:00
misc.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156 2019-05-30 11:26:35 -07:00
pcm_compat.c ALSA: pcm: Fix sparse warnings wrt snd_pcm_state_t 2020-01-31 16:23:13 +01:00
pcm_dmaengine.c ASoC: dmaengine_pcm: add peripheral configuration 2021-02-05 17:16:41 +00:00
pcm_drm_eld.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
pcm_iec958.c ALSA: core: pcm_iec958: fix kernel-doc 2020-07-07 10:22:33 +02:00
pcm_lib.c ALSA: pcm: use krealloc_array() 2020-12-15 12:13:37 -08:00
pcm_local.h ALSA: pcm: Use for_each_pcm_substream() macro 2021-02-08 16:01:01 +01:00
pcm_memory.c ALSA: core: avoid -Wempty-body warnings 2021-03-22 12:26:00 +01:00
pcm_misc.c ASoC: Updates for v5.7 2020-03-30 13:43:00 +02:00
pcm_native.c ALSA: pcm: Fix couple of typos 2021-03-26 09:12:30 +01:00
pcm_param_trace.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
pcm_timer.c ALSA: timer: Constify snd_timer_hardware definitions 2020-01-03 09:24:07 +01:00
pcm_trace.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
pcm.c ALSA: pcm: Use for_each_pcm_substream() macro 2021-02-08 16:01:01 +01:00
rawmidi_compat.c ALSA: Avoid using timespec for struct snd_rawmidi_status 2019-12-11 22:06:16 +01:00
rawmidi.c ALSA: Convert strlcpy to strscpy when return value is unused 2021-01-08 09:30:05 +01:00
seq_device.c ALSA: core: avoid -Wempty-body warnings 2021-03-22 12:26:00 +01:00
sgbuf.c ALSA: memalloc: Make SG-buffer helper usable for continuous buffer, too 2020-06-15 18:01:52 +02:00
sound_oss.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156 2019-05-30 11:26:35 -07:00
sound.c ALSA: core - add missing compress device type to /proc/asound/devices 2021-02-10 10:31:53 +01:00
timer_compat.c ALSA: Convert strlcpy to strscpy when return value is unused 2021-01-08 09:30:05 +01:00
timer.c ALSA: Convert strlcpy to strscpy when return value is unused 2021-01-08 09:30:05 +01:00
vmaster.c ALSA: Replace the word "slave" in vmaster API 2020-07-20 10:10:47 +02:00