[PATCH] ALSA: emux_hwdep: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerabilities

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Wed Dec 12 2018 - 12:20:55 EST


info.mode and info.port are indirectly controlled by user-space,
hence leading to a potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1
vulnerability.

These issues were detected with the help of Smatch:

sound/synth/emux/emux_hwdep.c:72 snd_emux_hwdep_misc_mode() warn: potential spectre issue 'emu->portptrs[i]->ctrls' [w] (local cap)
sound/synth/emux/emux_hwdep.c:75 snd_emux_hwdep_misc_mode() warn: potential spectre issue 'emu->portptrs' [w] (local cap)
sound/synth/emux/emux_hwdep.c:75 snd_emux_hwdep_misc_mode() warn: potential spectre issue 'emu->portptrs[info.port]->ctrls' [w] (local cap)

Fix this by sanitizing both info.mode and info.port before using them
to index emu->portptrs[i]->ctrls, emu->portptrs[info.port]->ctrls and
emu->portptrs.

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/synth/emux/emux_hwdep.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/synth/emux/emux_hwdep.c b/sound/synth/emux/emux_hwdep.c
index e557946718a9..a0d5cd99572f 100644
--- a/sound/synth/emux/emux_hwdep.c
+++ b/sound/synth/emux/emux_hwdep.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include "emux_voice.h"

+#include <linux/nospec.h>

#define TMP_CLIENT_ID 0x1001

@@ -66,13 +67,16 @@ snd_emux_hwdep_misc_mode(struct snd_emux *emu, void __user *arg)
return -EFAULT;
if (info.mode < 0 || info.mode >= EMUX_MD_END)
return -EINVAL;
+ info.mode = array_index_nospec(info.mode, EMUX_MD_END);

if (info.port < 0) {
for (i = 0; i < emu->num_ports; i++)
emu->portptrs[i]->ctrls[info.mode] = info.value;
} else {
- if (info.port < emu->num_ports)
+ if (info.port < emu->num_ports) {
+ info.port = array_index_nospec(info.port, emu->num_ports);
emu->portptrs[info.port]->ctrls[info.mode] = info.value;
+ }
}
return 0;
}
--
2.17.1