Re: Smatch check for Spectre stuff

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Mon Apr 23 2018 - 13:25:57 EST


So both smatch and coverity are complaining about sysvipc sems.
They look legit (if the policy is, as peterz describes: "kill
any speculation on the first load and not worry if it can be
completed with a dependent load/store").

On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Dan Carpenter wrote:
ipc/sem.c:1359 semctl_setval() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems' (local cap)
ipc/sem.c:1512 semctl_main() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems' (local cap)


And for this one the below patch already sanitizes semnum to be between
[0, sma->sem_nsems) before calling into count_semcnt().

ipc/sem.c:1096 count_semcnt() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems'
ipc/sem.c:2084 do_semtimedop() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems'
ipc/sem.c:388 sem_lock() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems'
ipc/sem.c:641 perform_atomic_semop_slow() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems'
ipc/sem.c:721 perform_atomic_semop() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems'

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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[PATCH] sysvipc/sem: mitigate semnum index against spectre v1.

Both smatch and coverity are reporting potential issues
with spectre variant 1 with the 'semnum' index within the
sma->sems array, ie:

ipc/sem.c:388 sem_lock() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems'
ipc/sem.c:641 perform_atomic_semop_slow() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems'
ipc/sem.c:721 perform_atomic_semop() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems'

Avoid any possible speculation by using array_index_nospec() thus
ensuring the semnum value is bounded to [0, sma->sem_nsems). With
the exception of sem_lock() all of these are slowpaths.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>
---

ipc/sem.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ipc/sem.c b/ipc/sem.c
index 06be75d9217a..df623dcefc92 100644
--- a/ipc/sem.c
+++ b/ipc/sem.c
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
#include <linux/ipc_namespace.h>
#include <linux/sched/wake_q.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>

#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include "util.h"
@@ -367,6 +368,7 @@ static inline int sem_lock(struct sem_array *sma, struct sembuf *sops,
int nsops)
{
struct sem *sem;
+ int idx;

if (nsops != 1) {
/* Complex operation - acquire a full lock */
@@ -384,7 +386,8 @@ static inline int sem_lock(struct sem_array *sma, struct sembuf *sops,
*
* Both facts are tracked by use_global_mode.
*/
- sem = &sma->sems[sops->sem_num];
+ idx = array_index_nospec(sops->sem_num, sma->sem_nsems);
+ sem = &sma->sems[idx];

/*
* Initial check for use_global_lock. Just an optimization,
@@ -637,7 +640,8 @@ static int perform_atomic_semop_slow(struct sem_array *sma, struct sem_queue *q)
un = q->undo;

for (sop = sops; sop < sops + nsops; sop++) {
- curr = &sma->sems[sop->sem_num];
+ int idx = array_index_nospec(sop->sem_num, sma->sem_nsems);
+ curr = &sma->sems[idx];
sem_op = sop->sem_op;
result = curr->semval;

@@ -717,7 +721,9 @@ static int perform_atomic_semop(struct sem_array *sma, struct sem_queue *q)
* until the operations can go through.
*/
for (sop = sops; sop < sops + nsops; sop++) {
- curr = &sma->sems[sop->sem_num];
+ int idx = array_index_nospec(sop->sem_num, sma->sem_nsems);
+
+ curr = &sma->sems[idx];
sem_op = sop->sem_op;
result = curr->semval;

@@ -1349,6 +1355,7 @@ static int semctl_setval(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int semid, int semnum,
return -EIDRM;
}

+ semnum = array_index_nospec(semnum, sma->sem_nsems);
curr = &sma->sems[semnum];

ipc_assert_locked_object(&sma->sem_perm);
@@ -1502,6 +1509,8 @@ static int semctl_main(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int semid, int semnum,
err = -EIDRM;
goto out_unlock;
}
+
+ semnum = array_index_nospec(semnum, nsems);
curr = &sma->sems[semnum];

switch (cmd) {
@@ -2072,7 +2081,8 @@ static long do_semtimedop(int semid, struct sembuf __user *tsops,
*/
if (nsops == 1) {
struct sem *curr;
- curr = &sma->sems[sops->sem_num];
+ int idx = array_index_nospec(sops->sem_num, sma->sem_nsems);
+ curr = &sma->sems[idx];

if (alter) {
if (sma->complex_count) {
--
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