Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:02:22 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: atm: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerabilities | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:57:23 -0500
> arg is 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/atm/lec.c:715 lec_mcast_attach() warn: potential spectre issue 'dev_lec' [r] (local cap) > > Fix this by sanitizing arg before using it to index dev_lec. > > 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/ > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable.
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