Patch "nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check()" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check()

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     nospec-kill-array_index_nospec_mask_check.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 1d91c1d2c80cb70e2e553845e278b87a960c04da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:20:42 -0800
Subject: nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check()

From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

commit 1d91c1d2c80cb70e2e553845e278b87a960c04da upstream.

There are multiple problems with the dynamic sanity checking in
array_index_nospec_mask_check():

* It causes unnecessary overhead in the 32-bit case since integer sized
  @index values will no longer cause the check to be compiled away like
  in the 64-bit case.

* In the 32-bit case it may trigger with user controllable input when
  the expectation is that should only trigger during development of new
  kernel enabling.

* The macro reuses the input parameter in multiple locations which is
  broken if someone passes an expression like 'index++' to
  array_index_nospec().

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151881604278.17395.6605847763178076520.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/nospec.h |   22 +---------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 21 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/nospec.h
+++ b/include/linux/nospec.h
@@ -30,26 +30,6 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_
 #endif
 
 /*
- * Warn developers about inappropriate array_index_nospec() usage.
- *
- * Even if the CPU speculates past the WARN_ONCE branch, the
- * sign bit of @index is taken into account when generating the
- * mask.
- *
- * This warning is compiled out when the compiler can infer that
- * @index and @size are less than LONG_MAX.
- */
-#define array_index_mask_nospec_check(index, size)				\
-({										\
-	if (WARN_ONCE(index > LONG_MAX || size > LONG_MAX,			\
-	    "array_index_nospec() limited to range of [0, LONG_MAX]\n"))	\
-		_mask = 0;							\
-	else									\
-		_mask = array_index_mask_nospec(index, size);			\
-	_mask;									\
-})
-
-/*
  * array_index_nospec - sanitize an array index after a bounds check
  *
  * For a code sequence like:
@@ -67,7 +47,7 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_
 ({									\
 	typeof(index) _i = (index);					\
 	typeof(size) _s = (size);					\
-	unsigned long _mask = array_index_mask_nospec_check(_i, _s);	\
+	unsigned long _mask = array_index_mask_nospec(_i, _s);		\
 									\
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(_i) > sizeof(long));			\
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(_s) > sizeof(long));			\


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.j.williams@intel.com are

queue-4.14/x86-entry-reduce-the-code-footprint-of-the-idtentry-macro.patch
queue-4.14/nospec-include-asm-barrier.h-dependency.patch
queue-4.14/x86-speculation-objtool-annotate-indirect-calls-jumps-for-objtool.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-use-xorl-for-faster-register-clearing.patch
queue-4.14/nospec-kill-array_index_nospec_mask_check.patch