3.16.60-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de
commit 088e861edffb84879cf0c0d1b02eda078c3a0ffe upstream.
As recently Smatch suggested, a few places in ALSA control core codes may expand the array directly from the user-space value with speculation:
sound/core/control.c:1003 snd_ctl_elem_lock() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd' sound/core/control.c:1031 snd_ctl_elem_unlock() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd' sound/core/control.c:844 snd_ctl_elem_info() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd' sound/core/control.c:891 snd_ctl_elem_read() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd' sound/core/control.c:939 snd_ctl_elem_write() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd'
Although all these seem doing only the first load without further reference, we may want to stay in a safer side, so hardening with array_index_nospec() would still make sense.
In this patch, we put array_index_nospec() to the common snd_ctl_get_ioff*() helpers instead of each caller. These helpers are also referred from some drivers, too, and basically all usages are to calculate the array index from the user-space value, hence it's better to cover there.
BugLink: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152411496503418&w=2 Reported-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk --- include/sound/control.h | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/sound/control.h +++ b/include/sound/control.h @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ * */
+#include <linux/nospec.h> #include <sound/asound.h>
#define snd_kcontrol_chip(kcontrol) ((kcontrol)->private_data) @@ -135,12 +136,14 @@ int snd_ctl_unregister_ioctl_compat(snd_
static inline unsigned int snd_ctl_get_ioffnum(struct snd_kcontrol *kctl, struct snd_ctl_elem_id *id) { - return id->numid - kctl->id.numid; + unsigned int ioff = id->numid - kctl->id.numid; + return array_index_nospec(ioff, kctl->count); }
static inline unsigned int snd_ctl_get_ioffidx(struct snd_kcontrol *kctl, struct snd_ctl_elem_id *id) { - return id->index - kctl->id.index; + unsigned int ioff = id->index - kctl->id.index; + return array_index_nospec(ioff, kctl->count); }
static inline unsigned int snd_ctl_get_ioff(struct snd_kcontrol *kctl, struct snd_ctl_elem_id *id)