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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Remi Denis-Courmont <courmisch@gmail.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] phonet: af_phonet: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:41:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181221214117.GA1539@embeddedor> (raw)

protocol 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:

net/phonet/af_phonet.c:48 phonet_proto_get() warn: potential spectre issue 'proto_tab' [w] (local cap)

Fix this by sanitizing protocol before using it to index proto_tab.

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>
---
 net/phonet/af_phonet.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/phonet/af_phonet.c b/net/phonet/af_phonet.c
index 3b0ef691f5b1..d4b2abd78858 100644
--- a/net/phonet/af_phonet.c
+++ b/net/phonet/af_phonet.c
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
 #include <net/phonet/phonet.h>
 #include <net/phonet/pn_dev.h>
 
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
+
 /* Transport protocol registration */
 static const struct phonet_protocol *proto_tab[PHONET_NPROTO] __read_mostly;
 
@@ -43,6 +45,7 @@ static const struct phonet_protocol *phonet_proto_get(unsigned int protocol)
 
 	if (protocol >= PHONET_NPROTO)
 		return NULL;
+	protocol = array_index_nospec(protocol, PHONET_NPROTO);
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	pp = rcu_dereference(proto_tab[protocol]);
-- 
2.20.1

             reply	other threads:[~2018-12-21 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-21 21:41 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2018-12-22  9:35 ` [PATCH] phonet: af_phonet: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability Rémi Denis-Courmont
2018-12-22 23:08 ` David Miller

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