drm/bufs: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:55:49 +0000 (11:55 +0200)
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 07:17:33 +0000 (09:17 +0200)
commita37805098900a6e73a55b3a43b7d3bcd987bb3f4
treefb8997e7e2a942d262a63e6f99deb1b037ae3bfe
parent871edc96bdab5fd84134320456670e7bfd5ec31a
drm/bufs: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability

idx can be 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/gpu/drm/drm_bufs.c:1420 drm_legacy_freebufs() warn: potential
spectre issue 'dma->buflist' [r] (local cap)

Fix this by sanitizing idx before using it to index dma->buflist

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: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181016095549.GA23586@embeddedor.com
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bufs.c