ALSA: control: Hardening for potential Spectre v1
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=2Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> CVE-2017-5753 (backported from commit 088e861e) [juergh: Adjusted context.] Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com> Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
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