3.16.65-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 0b84304ef5da92add8dc75a1b07879c5374cdb05 upstream. info->channel 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/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:4100 snd_hdsp_channel_info() warn: potential spectre issue 'hdsp->channel_map' [r] (local cap) Fix this by sanitizing info->channel before using it to index hdsp->channel_map 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]. Also, notice that I refactored the code a bit in order to get rid of the following checkpatch warning: ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition FILE: sound/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:4103: if ((mapped_channel = hdsp->channel_map[info->channel]) < 0) [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152449131114778&w=2 Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/sound/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c +++ b/sound/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/math64.h> #include <linux/vmalloc.h> +#include <linux/nospec.h> #include <sound/core.h> #include <sound/control.h> @@ -4129,15 +4130,16 @@ static int snd_hdsp_channel_info(struct struct snd_pcm_channel_info *info) { struct hdsp *hdsp = snd_pcm_substream_chip(substream); - int mapped_channel; + unsigned int channel = info->channel; - if (snd_BUG_ON(info->channel >= hdsp->max_channels)) + if (snd_BUG_ON(channel >= hdsp->max_channels)) return -EINVAL; + channel = array_index_nospec(channel, hdsp->max_channels); - if ((mapped_channel = hdsp->channel_map[info->channel]) < 0) + if (hdsp->channel_map[channel] < 0) return -EINVAL; - info->offset = mapped_channel * HDSP_CHANNEL_BUFFER_BYTES; + info->offset = hdsp->channel_map[channel] * HDSP_CHANNEL_BUFFER_BYTES; info->first = 0; info->step = 32; return 0;