Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:24:55 +0100 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ALSA: rawmidi: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability |
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:15:24 +0100, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > > 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/ > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Applied, thanks.
Takashi
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