This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check() to the 4.4-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: nospec-kill-array_index_nospec_mask_check.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1d91c1d2c80cb70e2e553845e278b87a960c04da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:20:42 -0800 Subject: nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check() From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> commit 1d91c1d2c80cb70e2e553845e278b87a960c04da upstream. There are multiple problems with the dynamic sanity checking in array_index_nospec_mask_check(): * It causes unnecessary overhead in the 32-bit case since integer sized @index values will no longer cause the check to be compiled away like in the 64-bit case. * In the 32-bit case it may trigger with user controllable input when the expectation is that should only trigger during development of new kernel enabling. * The macro reuses the input parameter in multiple locations which is broken if someone passes an expression like 'index++' to array_index_nospec(). Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151881604278.17395.6605847763178076520.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/nospec.h | 22 +--------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 21 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/nospec.h +++ b/include/linux/nospec.h @@ -31,26 +31,6 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_ #endif /* - * Warn developers about inappropriate array_index_nospec() usage. - * - * Even if the CPU speculates past the WARN_ONCE branch, the - * sign bit of @index is taken into account when generating the - * mask. - * - * This warning is compiled out when the compiler can infer that - * @index and @size are less than LONG_MAX. - */ -#define array_index_mask_nospec_check(index, size) \ -({ \ - if (WARN_ONCE(index > LONG_MAX || size > LONG_MAX, \ - "array_index_nospec() limited to range of [0, LONG_MAX]\n")) \ - _mask = 0; \ - else \ - _mask = array_index_mask_nospec(index, size); \ - _mask; \ -}) - -/* * array_index_nospec - sanitize an array index after a bounds check * * For a code sequence like: @@ -68,7 +48,7 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_ ({ \ typeof(index) _i = (index); \ typeof(size) _s = (size); \ - unsigned long _mask = array_index_mask_nospec_check(_i, _s); \ + unsigned long _mask = array_index_mask_nospec(_i, _s); \ \ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(_i) > sizeof(long)); \ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(_s) > sizeof(long)); \ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/nospec-move-array_index_nospec-parameter-checking-into-separate-macro.patch queue-4.4/nospec-kill-array_index_nospec_mask_check.patch