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char/mwave: fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Wed, 9 Jan 2019 19:02:36 +0000 (13:02 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 07:15:39 +0000 (08:15 +0100)
commit0bd8e01efb423438bd02c84e572025e67a556a93
tree0af298c2e5fa111c5223e8837035cccabf8c1f28
parent1fa50a998f17ee4fb1650b013d8b529e010ef8b3
char/mwave: fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability

commit 701956d4018e5d5438570e39e8bda47edd32c489 upstream.

ipcnum 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/char/mwave/mwavedd.c:299 mwave_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue 'pDrvData->IPCs' [w] (local cap)

Fix this by sanitizing ipcnum before using it to index pDrvData->IPCs.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/mwave/mwavedd.c