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ALSA: rawmidi: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:15:24 +0000 (16:15 -0500)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 11:38:50 +0000 (12:38 +0100)
commit748cfcf4db34f23c2d681c9427f2de6730718341
tree3045dc0ae248dcfab5d22d3b1b9da856f949f3ae
parent1d6f09cbd4d7734f4966c7c51d60a28f16b6400f
ALSA: rawmidi: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability

commit 2b1d9c8f87235f593826b9cf46ec10247741fff9 upstream.

info->stream is indirectly controlled by user-space, hence leading to
a potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability.

This issue was detected with the help of Smatch:

sound/core/rawmidi.c:604 __snd_rawmidi_info_select() warn: potential spectre issue 'rmidi->streams' [r] (local cap)

Fix this by sanitizing info->stream before using it to index
rmidi->streams.

Notice that given that speculation windows are large, the policy is
to kill the speculation on the first load and not worry if it can be
completed with a dependent load/store [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180423164740.GY17484@dhcp22.suse.cz/

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
sound/core/rawmidi.c