[PATCH 4.18 13/34] RDMA/ucma: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-11-08T22:09:30Z

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

commit a3671a4f973ee9d9621d60166cc3b037c397d604 upstream.

hdr.cmd can be 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/infiniband/core/ucma.c:1686 ucma_write() warn: potential
spectre issue 'ucma_cmd_table' [r] (local cap)

Fix this by sanitizing hdr.cmd before using it to index
ucm_cmd_table.

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>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/nsproxy.h>

+#include <linux/nospec.h>
+
#include <rdma/rdma_user_cm.h>
#include <rdma/ib_marshall.h>
#include <rdma/rdma_cm.h>
@@ -1676,6 +1678,7 @@ static ssize_t ucma_write(struct file *f

if (hdr.cmd >= ARRAY_SIZE(ucma_cmd_table))
return -EINVAL;
+ hdr.cmd = array_index_nospec(hdr.cmd, ARRAY_SIZE(ucma_cmd_table));

if (hdr.in + sizeof(hdr) > len)
return -EINVAL;