Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/kvmgt: Fix potential Spectre v1

From: Zhenyu Wang
Date: Mon Aug 06 2018 - 22:35:04 EST


On 2018.08.02 22:40:19 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> info.index can be indirectly 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/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c:1232 intel_vgpu_ioctl() warn:
> potential spectre issue 'vgpu->vdev.region' [r]
>
> Fix this by sanitizing info.index before indirectly using it to index
> vgpu->vdev.region

Thanks for catching this! Applied.

>
> 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/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c
> index 4d2f53a..b703f20 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
> #include <linux/mdev.h>
> #include <linux/debugfs.h>
>
> +#include <linux/nospec.h>
> +
> #include "i915_drv.h"
> #include "gvt.h"
>
> @@ -1139,7 +1141,8 @@ static long intel_vgpu_ioctl(struct mdev_device *mdev, unsigned int cmd,
> } else if (cmd == VFIO_DEVICE_GET_REGION_INFO) {
> struct vfio_region_info info;
> struct vfio_info_cap caps = { .buf = NULL, .size = 0 };
> - int i, ret;
> + unsigned int i;
> + int ret;
> struct vfio_region_info_cap_sparse_mmap *sparse = NULL;
> size_t size;
> int nr_areas = 1;
> @@ -1224,6 +1227,10 @@ static long intel_vgpu_ioctl(struct mdev_device *mdev, unsigned int cmd,
> if (info.index >= VFIO_PCI_NUM_REGIONS +
> vgpu->vdev.num_regions)
> return -EINVAL;
> + info.index =
> + array_index_nospec(info.index,
> + VFIO_PCI_NUM_REGIONS +
> + vgpu->vdev.num_regions);
>
> i = info.index - VFIO_PCI_NUM_REGIONS;
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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