[PATCH 3.16 235/328] misc: hmc6352: fix potential Spectre v1

Ben Hutchings
2018-12-09T22:21:41Z

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

commit de916736aaaadddbd6061472969f667b14204aa9 upstream.

val is 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/misc/hmc6352.c:54 compass_store() warn: potential spectre issue
'map' [r]

Fix this by sanitizing val before using it to index map

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

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
drivers/misc/hmc6352.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/misc/hmc6352.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/hmc6352.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/sysfs.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>

static DEFINE_MUTEX(compass_mutex);

@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ static int compass_store(struct device *
return ret;
if (val >= strlen(map))
return -EINVAL;
+ val = array_index_nospec(val, strlen(map));
mutex_lock(&compass_mutex);
ret = compass_command(c, map[val]);
mutex_unlock(&compass_mutex);