From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Santosh Raspatur <santosh@chelsio.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: cxgb3_main: fix potential Spectre v1
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:59:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180717015958.GA19236@embeddedor.com> (raw)
t.qset_idx 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/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c:2286 cxgb_extension_ioctl()
warn: potential spectre issue 'adapter->msix_info'
Fix this by sanitizing t.qset_idx before using it to index
adapter->msix_info
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/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c
index 7b795ed..a19172d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
#include "common.h"
#include "cxgb3_ioctl.h"
@@ -2268,6 +2269,7 @@ static int cxgb_extension_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
if (t.qset_idx >= nqsets)
return -EINVAL;
+ t.qset_idx = array_index_nospec(t.qset_idx, nqsets);
q = &adapter->params.sge.qset[q1 + t.qset_idx];
t.rspq_size = q->rspq_size;
--
2.7.4
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2018-07-18 20:31 ` [PATCH] net: cxgb3_main: fix potential Spectre v1 David Miller
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