Re: [PATCH] bpf: fix possible spectre-v1 in find_and_alloc_map()

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Fri May 04 2018 - 06:49:38 EST


On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 02:16:31AM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 05/03/2018 06:04 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > It's possible for userspace to control attr->map_type. Sanitize it when
> > using it as an array index to prevent an out-of-bounds value being used
> > under speculation.
> >
> > Found by smatch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Applied to bpf tree, thanks Mark!

Cheers!

> I've also just submitted one for BPF progs
> (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/908385/) which is same situation.

That looks good to me. That case doesn't show up in my smatch results so
far, but I might just need a few more build iterations.

Thanks,
Mark.