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

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Mon May 21 2018 - 11:24:14 EST




On 05/17/2018 01:08 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:

BTW, Mauro, you sent a patch to fix an spectre v1 issue in this file yesterday: dvb_ca_en50221.c:1480, but it seems there is another instance of the same issue some lines above:

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c
index 1310526..7edd9db 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c
@@ -1398,6 +1398,7 @@ static int dvb_ca_en50221_io_do_ioctl(struct file *file,

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ info->type = CA_CI_LINK;
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ info->flags = 0;
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ slot = array_index_nospec(slot, ca->slot_count + 1);
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ sl = &ca->slot_info[slot];
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ if ((sl->slot_state != DVB_CA_SLOTSTATE_NONE) &&
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ (sl->slot_state != DVB_CA_SLOTSTATE_INVALID)) {



Hi Mauro,

Just to let you know, I was running smatch during the weekend and the tool is still reporting all these Spectre media warnings (and a lot more):

https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/project/linux-media/list/?submitter=7277

Thanks
--
Gustavo