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SubjectRe: [PATCH] switchtec: Fix potential Spectre v1


On 16/08/18 01:06 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> p.port can is 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/pci/switch/switchtec.c:912 ioctl_port_to_pff() warn: potential
> spectre issue 'pcfg->dsp_pff_inst_id' [r]
>
> Fix this by sanitizing p.port before using it to index
> pcfg->dsp_pff_inst_id
>
> 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@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

Acked-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>

Looks good to me, thanks.

Logan

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