Re: [PATCH] IB/core: Add mitigation for Spectre V1

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On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 01:24:07PM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> Some processors may mispredict an array bounds check and
> speculatively access memory that they should not. With
> a user supplied array index we like to play things safe
> by masking the value with the array size before it is
> used as an index.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> 
> [I don't have h/w, so just compile tested]
> 
>  drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c
> index 9f8a48016b41..fdce254e4f65 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c
> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
>  #include <linux/sched.h>
>  #include <linux/semaphore.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/nospec.h>
>  
>  #include <linux/uaccess.h>
>  
> @@ -888,6 +889,7 @@ static int ib_umad_unreg_agent(struct ib_umad_file *file, u32 __user *arg)
>  	mutex_lock(&file->port->file_mutex);
>  	mutex_lock(&file->mutex);
>  
> +	id = array_index_nospec(id, IB_UMAD_MAX_AGENTS);
>  	if (id >= IB_UMAD_MAX_AGENTS || !__get_agent(file, id)) {
>  		ret = -EINVAL;
>  		goto out;
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 



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