From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Valentina Manea <valentina.manea.m@gmail.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [v2] usbip: vhci_sysfs: fix potential Spectre v1
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 15:47:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180518134701.GA15598@kroah.com> (raw)
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 03:16:28PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> pdev_nr and rhport can be 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/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c:238 detach_store() warn: potential spectre issue 'vhcis'
> drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c:328 attach_store() warn: potential spectre issue 'vhcis'
> drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c:338 attach_store() warn: potential spectre issue 'vhci->vhci_hcd_ss->vdev'
> drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c:340 attach_store() warn: potential spectre issue 'vhci->vhci_hcd_hs->vdev'
>
> Fix this by sanitizing pdev_nr and rhport before using them to index
> vhcis and vhci->vhci_hcd_ss->vdev respectively.
>
> 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
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Place the barriers into valid_port.
Thanks for the change. I'll wait for Shuah's ack/review before queueing
this up just as she knows that codebase much better than anyone else.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2018-05-18 13:47 Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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2018-05-19 16:53 [v2] usbip: vhci_sysfs: fix potential Spectre v1 Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-05-19 7:04 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-05-18 22:27 Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-05-18 16:06 Shuah Khan
2018-05-17 20:16 Gustavo A. R. Silva
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