[PATCH] media: si470x: fix potential Spectre variant 1

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Mon May 21 2018 - 12:02:40 EST


band->index can be 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/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c:758 si470x_vidioc_enum_freq_bands() warn: potential spectre issue 'bands'

Fix this by sanitizing band->index before using it to index
`bands'

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c b/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c
index c40e175..e81f9aa 100644
--- a/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c
+++ b/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c
@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@
/* kernel includes */
#include "radio-si470x.h"

+/* Hardening for Spectre-v1 */
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
+
+
/**************************************************************************
* Module Parameters
**************************************************************************/
@@ -755,7 +759,7 @@ static int si470x_vidioc_enum_freq_bands(struct file *file, void *priv,
return -EINVAL;
if (band->index >= ARRAY_SIZE(bands))
return -EINVAL;
- *band = bands[band->index];
+ *band = bands[array_index_nospec(band->index, ARRAY_SIZE(bands))];
return 0;
}

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2.7.4