ALSA: seq: oss: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:42:01 +0000 (18:42 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 3 Apr 2019 04:26:22 +0000 (06:26 +0200)
commitb425f45295dd9692c146a6ca46cb533195aa3d9f
treeeca51bf896c5e35d94645d7d53a0a2f6437158e8
parentbd55e6727a33b89d5575e2759eef82ad9551a45c
ALSA: seq: oss: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability

commit c709f14f0616482b67f9fbcb965e1493a03ff30b upstream.

dev 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/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c:626 snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info() warn: potential spectre issue 'dp->synths' [w] (local cap)

Fix this by sanitizing dev before using it to index dp->synths.

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/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c