[PATCH 13/45] arm64: uaccess: Prevent speculative use of the current addr_limit

[Alex Shi]

From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

commit c2f0ad4fc089 upstream.

A mispredicted conditional call to set_fs could result in the wrong
addr_limit being forwarded under speculation to a subsequent access_ok
check, potentially forming part of a spectre-v1 attack using uaccess
routines.

This patch prevents this forwarding from taking place, but putting heavy
barriers in set_fs after writing the addr_limit.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 3531fec..00025c5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t fs)
 	current_thread_info()->addr_limit = fs;
 
 	/*
+	 * Prevent a mispredicted conditional call to set_fs from forwarding
+	 * the wrong address limit to access_ok under speculation.
+	 */
+	dsb(nsh);
+	isb();
+
+	/*
 	 * Enable/disable UAO so that copy_to_user() etc can access
 	 * kernel memory with the unprivileged instructions.
 	 */
-- 
2.7.4