From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
stable <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] drm/ioc32: stop speculation on the drm_compat_ioctl path
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:42:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026032451-playing-rummage-8fa2@gregkh> (raw)
The drm compat ioctl path takes a user controlled pointer, and then
dereferences it into a table of function pointers, the signature method
of spectre problems. Fix this up by calling array_index_nospec() on the
index to the function pointer list.
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: gkh_clanker_2000
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
My scripts caught this codepath as not being "protected" for the
old-school spectre attack. I don't know how realistic it is, but it
seems like this is the correct thing to be doing for a 32bit ioctl on
the drm path, as "local" users can make these.
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioc32.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioc32.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioc32.c
index e6b5b06de148..f3e40d1e6098 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioc32.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioc32.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
* IN THE SOFTWARE.
*/
#include <linux/compat.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
@@ -374,6 +375,7 @@ long drm_compat_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
if (nr >= ARRAY_SIZE(drm_compat_ioctls))
return drm_ioctl(filp, cmd, arg);
+ nr = array_index_nospec(nr, ARRAY_SIZE(drm_compat_ioctls));
fn = drm_compat_ioctls[nr].fn;
if (!fn)
return drm_ioctl(filp, cmd, arg);
--
2.53.0
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2026-03-25 14:20 ` [PATCH] drm/ioc32: stop speculation on the drm_compat_ioctl path Thomas Zimmermann
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