From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:47:53 -0600 > proto 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: > > net/nfc/af_nfc.c:42 nfc_sock_create() warn: potential spectre issue 'proto_tab' [w] (local cap) > > Fix this by sanitizing proto before using it to index proto_tab. > > 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 > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I'll take this directly, and queued up for -stable. Thanks.
