[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: emu10k1: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerabilities

[Takashi Iwai]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:52:16 +0100,
 Gustavo A. R. Silva  wrote:
> 
> ipcm->substream 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/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c:1031 snd_emu10k1_ipcm_poke() warn: potential spectre issue 'emu->fx8010.pcm' [r] (local cap)
> sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c:1075 snd_emu10k1_ipcm_peek() warn: potential spectre issue 'emu->fx8010.pcm' [r] (local cap)
> 
> Fix this by sanitizing ipcm->substream before using it to index emu->fx8010.pcm
> 
> 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 at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo at embeddedor.com>

Applied, thanks.


Takashi