ipv4: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:41:24 +0000 (12:41 -0600)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:10:38 +0000 (12:10 -0800)
commit5648451e30a0d13d11796574919a359025d52cce
tree277562e851c9842f78cd32c99d1a25fd91fcc7f6
parent4a2eb0c37b4759416996fbb4c45b932500cf06d3
ipv4: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability

vr.vifi 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:

net/ipv4/ipmr.c:1616 ipmr_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue 'mrt->vif_table' [r] (local cap)
net/ipv4/ipmr.c:1690 ipmr_compat_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue 'mrt->vif_table' [r] (local cap)

Fix this by sanitizing vr.vifi before using it to index mrt->vif_table'

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 <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv4/ipmr.c