linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability

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Message-ID: <s5hpnu5u9js.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:15:35 +0100
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     " Gustavo A. R. Silva " <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc:     "Jaroslav Kysela" <perex@...ex.cz>, <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability

On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:36:28 +0100,
 Gustavo A. R. Silva  wrote:
> 
> 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/pcm.c:140 snd_pcm_control_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue 'pcm->streams' [r] (local cap)
> 
> Fix this by sanitizing stream before using it to index pcm->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://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152449131114778&w=2
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>

Applied now (again after moving the include line into a more
appropriate place).


thanks,

Takashi