3.16.66-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" gustavo@embeddedor.com
commit 701956d4018e5d5438570e39e8bda47edd32c489 upstream.
ipcnum 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:
drivers/char/mwave/mwavedd.c:299 mwave_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue 'pDrvData->IPCs' [w] (local cap)
Fix this by sanitizing ipcnum before using it to index pDrvData->IPCs.
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: Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk --- drivers/char/mwave/mwavedd.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/char/mwave/mwavedd.c +++ b/drivers/char/mwave/mwavedd.c @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ #include <linux/mutex.h> #include <linux/delay.h> #include <linux/serial_8250.h> +#include <linux/nospec.h> #include "smapi.h" #include "mwavedd.h" #include "3780i.h" @@ -289,6 +290,8 @@ static long mwave_ioctl(struct file *fil ipcnum); return -EINVAL; } + ipcnum = array_index_nospec(ipcnum, + ARRAY_SIZE(pDrvData->IPCs)); PRINTK_3(TRACE_MWAVE, "mwavedd::mwave_ioctl IOCTL_MW_REGISTER_IPC" " ipcnum %x entry usIntCount %x\n", @@ -317,6 +320,8 @@ static long mwave_ioctl(struct file *fil " Invalid ipcnum %x\n", ipcnum); return -EINVAL; } + ipcnum = array_index_nospec(ipcnum, + ARRAY_SIZE(pDrvData->IPCs)); PRINTK_3(TRACE_MWAVE, "mwavedd::mwave_ioctl IOCTL_MW_GET_IPC" " ipcnum %x, usIntCount %x\n", @@ -383,6 +388,8 @@ static long mwave_ioctl(struct file *fil ipcnum); return -EINVAL; } + ipcnum = array_index_nospec(ipcnum, + ARRAY_SIZE(pDrvData->IPCs)); mutex_lock(&mwave_mutex); if (pDrvData->IPCs[ipcnum].bIsEnabled == TRUE) { pDrvData->IPCs[ipcnum].bIsEnabled = FALSE;