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* [PATCH] media: si470x: fix potential Spectre variant 1
@ 2018-05-21 16:57 Gustavo A. R. Silva
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From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2018-05-21 16:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Hans Verkuil, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
  Cc: linux-media, linux-kernel, Gustavo A. R. Silva

band->index 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/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c:758 si470x_vidioc_enum_freq_bands() warn: potential spectre issue 'bands'

Fix this by sanitizing band->index before using it to index
`bands'

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>
---
 drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c b/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c
index c40e175..e81f9aa 100644
--- a/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c
+++ b/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c
@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@
 /* kernel includes */
 #include "radio-si470x.h"
 
+/* Hardening for Spectre-v1 */
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
+
+
 /**************************************************************************
  * Module Parameters
  **************************************************************************/
@@ -755,7 +759,7 @@ static int si470x_vidioc_enum_freq_bands(struct file *file, void *priv,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (band->index >= ARRAY_SIZE(bands))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	*band = bands[band->index];
+	*band = bands[array_index_nospec(band->index, ARRAY_SIZE(bands))];
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.7.4

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