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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] vfio/pci: Fix potential Spectre v1
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:39:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180717173900.GA24627@embeddedor.com> (raw)

info.index 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/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c:734 vfio_pci_ioctl()
warn: potential spectre issue 'vdev->region'

Fix this by sanitizing info.index before indirectly using it to index
vdev->region

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/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
index b423a30..125b58e 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/vfio.h>
 #include <linux/vgaarb.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
 
 #include "vfio_pci_private.h"
 
@@ -727,6 +728,9 @@ static long vfio_pci_ioctl(void *device_data,
 			if (info.index >=
 			    VFIO_PCI_NUM_REGIONS + vdev->num_regions)
 				return -EINVAL;
+			info.index = array_index_nospec(info.index,
+							VFIO_PCI_NUM_REGIONS +
+							vdev->num_regions);
 
 			i = info.index - VFIO_PCI_NUM_REGIONS;
 
-- 
2.7.4


             reply	other threads:[~2018-07-17 17:39 UTC|newest]

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2018-07-17 17:39 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2018-07-18 20:33 ` Alex Williamson

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