ALSA: control: Hardening for potential Spectre v1
commit210392f6093fa65483a25a77d4397f1654c067bd
authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 05:45:56 +0000 (24 07:45 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 2 May 2018 14:53:41 +0000 (2 07:53 -0700)
tree1c9e62564fcbdce611b40b469d04be653efb5bc7
parent4984b8bb89fc7d0f0415b4a48fc07333f7b7bbca
ALSA: control: Hardening for potential Spectre v1

commit 088e861edffb84879cf0c0d1b02eda078c3a0ffe upstream.

As recently Smatch suggested, a few places in ALSA control core codes
may expand the array directly from the user-space value with
speculation:

  sound/core/control.c:1003 snd_ctl_elem_lock() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd'
  sound/core/control.c:1031 snd_ctl_elem_unlock() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd'
  sound/core/control.c:844 snd_ctl_elem_info() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd'
  sound/core/control.c:891 snd_ctl_elem_read() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd'
  sound/core/control.c:939 snd_ctl_elem_write() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd'

Although all these seem doing only the first load without further
reference, we may want to stay in a safer side, so hardening with
array_index_nospec() would still make sense.

In this patch, we put array_index_nospec() to the common
snd_ctl_get_ioff*() helpers instead of each caller.  These helpers are
also referred from some drivers, too, and basically all usages are to
calculate the array index from the user-space value, hence it's better
to cover there.

BugLink: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152411496503418&w=2
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/sound/control.h