This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ptp: fix Spectre v1 vulnerability to the 4.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ptp-fix-spectre-v1-vulnerability.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From efa61c8cf2950ab5c0e66cff3cabe2a2b24e81ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:06:41 +0200 Subject: ptp: fix Spectre v1 vulnerability From: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit efa61c8cf2950ab5c0e66cff3cabe2a2b24e81ba upstream. pin_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/ptp/ptp_chardev.c:253 ptp_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue 'ops->pin_config' [r] (local cap) Fix this by sanitizing pin_index before using it to index ops->pin_config, and before passing it as an argument to function ptp_set_pinfunc(), in which it is used to index info->pin_config. 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> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c +++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/timekeeping.h> +#include <linux/nospec.h> + #include "ptp_private.h" static int ptp_disable_pinfunc(struct ptp_clock_info *ops, @@ -248,6 +250,7 @@ long ptp_ioctl(struct posix_clock *pc, u err = -EINVAL; break; } + pin_index = array_index_nospec(pin_index, ops->n_pins); if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&ptp->pincfg_mux)) return -ERESTARTSYS; pd = ops->pin_config[pin_index]; @@ -266,6 +269,7 @@ long ptp_ioctl(struct posix_clock *pc, u err = -EINVAL; break; } + pin_index = array_index_nospec(pin_index, ops->n_pins); if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&ptp->pincfg_mux)) return -ERESTARTSYS; err = ptp_set_pinfunc(ptp, pin_index, pd.func, pd.chan); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.18/ptp-fix-spectre-v1-vulnerability.patch queue-4.18/rdma-ucma-fix-spectre-v1-vulnerability.patch queue-4.18/usb-gadget-storage-fix-spectre-v1-vulnerability.patch queue-4.18/ib-ucm-fix-spectre-v1-vulnerability.patch