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drivers/misc/sgi-gru: fix Spectre v1 vulnerability

PATCH New Gustavo A. R. Silva 1 participant 1 message Oct 16, 2018 Char and misc drivers

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PATCH 1/1 drivers/misc/sgi-gru: fix Spectre v1 vulnerability

req.gid 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:

vers/misc/sgi-gru/grukdump.c:200 gru_dump_chiplet_request() warn:
potential spectre issue 'gru_base' [w]

Fix this by sanitizing req.gid before calling macro GID_TO_GRU, which uses it to index gru_base.

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

---
 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukdump.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukdump.c +4 -0
index 313da31..1540a77 100644
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <asm/uv/uv_hub.h>
+
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
+
 #include "gru.h"
 #include "grutables.h"
 #include "gruhandles.h"
@@ -196,6 +199,7 @@ int gru_dump_chiplet_request(unsigned long arg)
 	/* Currently, only dump by gid is implemented */
 	if (req.gid >= gru_max_gids)
 		return -EINVAL;
+	req.gid = array_index_nospec(req.gid, gru_max_gids);
 
 	gru = GID_TO_GRU(req.gid);
 	ubuf = req.buf;
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