Re: [PATCH 01/11] media: tm6000: fix potential Spectre variant 1

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 02:47:55PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> So, I'm wondering if are there any way to mitigate it inside the 
> core itself, instead of doing it on every driver, e. g. changing
> v4l_enum_fmt() implementation at v4l2-ioctl.
> 
> Ok, a "poor man" approach would be to pass the array directly to
> the core and let the implementation there to implement the array
> fetch logic, calling array_index_nospec() there, but I wonder if
> are there any other way that won't require too much code churn.

Sadly no; the whole crux is the array bound check itself. You could
maybe pass around the array size to the core code and then do something
like:

	if (f->index >= f->array_size)
		return -EINVAL;

	f->index = nospec_array_index(f->index, f->array_size);

in generic code, and have all the drivers use f->index as usual, but
even that would be quite a bit of code churn I guess.