]> www.infradead.org Git - users/jedix/linux-maple.git/commit
applicom: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerabilities
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Wed, 9 Jan 2019 22:05:10 +0000 (16:05 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:03:10 +0000 (14:03 -0700)
commit5838a070d1177dc02d7acb553bc02e6f018e024a
tree8ba71476053f96c13bc8a447ba9a378e0f47d695
parent9e1176f21da05751722d8ee0345697251a739320
applicom: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerabilities

commit d7ac3c6ef5d8ce14b6381d52eb7adafdd6c8bb3c upstream.

IndexCard 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/applicom.c:418 ac_write() warn: potential spectre issue 'apbs' [r]
drivers/char/applicom.c:728 ac_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue 'apbs' [r] (local cap)

Fix this by sanitizing IndexCard before using it to index apbs.

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://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180423164740.GY17484@dhcp22.suse.cz/

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/applicom.c