commit
e97267cb4d1ee01ca0929638ec0fcbb0904f903d upstream.
vsa.console 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/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:711 vt_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue
'vc_cons' [r]
Fix this by sanitizing vsa.console before using it to index vc_cons
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
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
+
#include <linux/kbd_kern.h>
#include <linux/vt_kern.h>
#include <linux/kbd_diacr.h>
if (vsa.console == 0 || vsa.console > MAX_NR_CONSOLES)
ret = -ENXIO;
else {
+ vsa.console = array_index_nospec(vsa.console,
+ MAX_NR_CONSOLES + 1);
vsa.console--;
console_lock();
ret = vc_allocate(vsa.console);