The idx in vhost_vring_ioctl() was controlled by userspace, hence a potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability. Fixing this by sanitizing idx before using it to index d->vqs. Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index f52008bb8df7..3a5f81a66d34 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ #include <linux/sched/mm.h> #include <linux/sched/signal.h> #include <linux/interval_tree_generic.h> +#include <linux/nospec.h> #include "vhost.h" @@ -1387,6 +1388,7 @@ long vhost_vring_ioctl(struct vhost_dev *d, unsigned int ioctl, void __user *arg if (idx >= d->nvqs) return -ENOBUFS; + idx = array_index_nospec(idx, d->nvqs); vq = d->vqs[idx]; mutex_lock(&vq->mutex); -- 2.17.1 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization