Re: [PATCH] KVM: s390: Fix potential spectre warnings

David Hildenbrand
2019-04-17T07:49:38Z

On 17.04.19 02:54, Eric Farman wrote:
> Fix some warnings from smatch:
>
> arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c:2310 get_io_adapter() warn: potential spectre issue 'kvm->arch.adapters' [r] (local cap)
> arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c:2341 register_io_adapter() warn: potential spectre issue 'dev->kvm->arch.adapters' [w]
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> A recent patch from Paolo [1] acted as a reminder (thanks, Christian!)
> that I had one for the s390 KVM code after some code reviews [2].
> Let's clean that up.
>
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10895463/
> [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10788565/#22484223
> ---
> arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c | 11 +++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c b/arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c
> index 82162867f378..bfd55ad34a3e 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c
> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
> #include <linux/kvm_host.h>
> #include <linux/hrtimer.h>
> #include <linux/mmu_context.h>
> +#include <linux/nospec.h>
> #include <linux/signal.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/bitmap.h>
> @@ -2307,6 +2308,7 @@ static struct s390_io_adapter *get_io_adapter(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int id)
> {
> if (id >= MAX_S390_IO_ADAPTERS)
> return NULL;
> + id = array_index_nospec(id, MAX_S390_IO_ADAPTERS);
> return kvm->arch.adapters[id];

return kvm->arch.adapters[array_index_nospec(id, MAX_S390_IO_ADAPTERS)];

should exactly fit into a single line if I am not wrong.

> }
>
> @@ -2320,8 +2322,13 @@ static int register_io_adapter(struct kvm_device *dev,
> (void __user *)attr->addr, sizeof(adapter_info)))
> return -EFAULT;
>
> - if ((adapter_info.id >= MAX_S390_IO_ADAPTERS) ||
> - (dev->kvm->arch.adapters[adapter_info.id] != NULL))
> + if (adapter_info.id >= MAX_S390_IO_ADAPTERS)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + adapter_info.id = array_index_nospec(adapter_info.id,
> + MAX_S390_IO_ADAPTERS);

I dislike that we are modifying adapter_info here. Can you use a local
variable instead?

> +
> + if (dev->kvm->arch.adapters[adapter_info.id] != NULL)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> adapter = kzalloc(sizeof(*adapter), GFP_KERNEL);
>

--

Thanks,

David / dhildenb