linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 036/157] ALSA: rawmidi: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability

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Message-ID: <lsq.1565469607.570627698@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Sat, 10 Aug 2019 21:40:07 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>,
        "Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@...e.de>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 036/157] ALSA: rawmidi: Fix potential Spectre v1
 vulnerability

3.16.72-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>

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@...eddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 sound/core/rawmidi.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/sound/core/rawmidi.c
+++ b/sound/core/rawmidi.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
 #include <sound/rawmidi.h>
 #include <sound/info.h>
 #include <sound/control.h>
@@ -601,6 +602,7 @@ static int __snd_rawmidi_info_select(str
 		return -ENXIO;
 	if (info->stream < 0 || info->stream > 1)
 		return -EINVAL;
+	info->stream = array_index_nospec(info->stream, 2);
 	pstr = &rmidi->streams[info->stream];
 	if (pstr->substream_count == 0)
 		return -ENOENT;