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Commit 94ffb030 authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva's avatar Gustavo A. R. Silva Committed by Takashi Iwai
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ALSA: pcm: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability

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/pcm.c:140 snd_pcm_control_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue 'pcm->streams' [r] (local cap)

Fix this by sanitizing stream before using it to index pcm->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://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152449131114778&w=2



Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
parent 4aea96f4
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