3.16.62-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]> commit de916736aaaadddbd6061472969f667b14204aa9 upstream. val 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/misc/hmc6352.c:54 compass_store() warn: potential spectre issue 'map' [r] Fix this by sanitizing val before using it to index map 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- drivers/misc/hmc6352.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/misc/hmc6352.c +++ b/drivers/misc/hmc6352.c @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ #include <linux/err.h> #include <linux/delay.h> #include <linux/sysfs.h> +#include <linux/nospec.h> static DEFINE_MUTEX(compass_mutex); @@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ static int compass_store(struct device * return ret; if (val >= strlen(map)) return -EINVAL; + val = array_index_nospec(val, strlen(map)); mutex_lock(&compass_mutex); ret = compass_command(c, map[val]); mutex_unlock(&compass_mutex);
