[PATCH 27/61] ALSA: Fix re-use of va_list

[Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>]

-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

[PATCH] ALSA: Fix re-use of va_list

The va_list is designed to be used only once.  The current code
may pass va_list arguments multiple times and may cause Oops.
Copy/release the arguments temporarily to avoid this problem.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>

---
 sound/core/info.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.18.1.orig/sound/core/info.c
+++ linux-2.6.18.1/sound/core/info.c
@@ -119,7 +119,10 @@ int snd_iprintf(struct snd_info_buffer *
 	len = buffer->len - buffer->size;
 	va_start(args, fmt);
 	for (;;) {
-		res = vsnprintf(buffer->buffer + buffer->curr, len, fmt, args);
+		va_list ap;
+		va_copy(ap, args);
+		res = vsnprintf(buffer->buffer + buffer->curr, len, fmt, ap);
+		va_end(ap);
 		if (res < len)
 			break;
 		err = resize_info_buffer(buffer, buffer->len + PAGE_SIZE);

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