dev 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/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c:626 snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info() warn: potential spectre issue 'dp->synths' [w] (local cap) Fix this by sanitizing dev before using it to index dp->synths. 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c index 278ebb993122..c93945917235 100644 --- a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c +++ b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c @@ -617,13 +617,14 @@ int snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info(struct seq_oss_devinfo *dp, int dev, struct synth_info *inf) { struct seq_oss_synth *rec; + struct seq_oss_synthinfo *info = get_synthinfo_nospec(dp, dev); - if (dev < 0 || dev >= dp->max_synthdev) + if (!info) return -ENXIO; - if (dp->synths[dev].is_midi) { + if (info->is_midi) { struct midi_info minf; - snd_seq_oss_midi_make_info(dp, dp->synths[dev].midi_mapped, &minf); + snd_seq_oss_midi_make_info(dp, info->midi_mapped, &minf); inf->synth_type = SYNTH_TYPE_MIDI; inf->synth_subtype = 0; inf->nr_voices = 16; -- 2.21.0 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel