[PATCH] drm/i915/kvmgt: Fix potential Spectre v1

Zhenyu Wang zhenyuw at linux.intel.com
Tue Aug 7 02:26:24 UTC 2018


On 2018.08.02 22:40:19 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> info.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/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c:1232 intel_vgpu_ioctl() warn:
> potential spectre issue 'vgpu->vdev.region' [r]
> 
> Fix this by sanitizing info.index before indirectly using it to index
> vgpu->vdev.region

Thanks for catching this! Applied.

> 
> 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 at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo at embeddedor.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c
> index 4d2f53a..b703f20 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
>  #include <linux/mdev.h>
>  #include <linux/debugfs.h>
>  
> +#include <linux/nospec.h>
> +
>  #include "i915_drv.h"
>  #include "gvt.h"
>  
> @@ -1139,7 +1141,8 @@ static long intel_vgpu_ioctl(struct mdev_device *mdev, unsigned int cmd,
>  	} else if (cmd == VFIO_DEVICE_GET_REGION_INFO) {
>  		struct vfio_region_info info;
>  		struct vfio_info_cap caps = { .buf = NULL, .size = 0 };
> -		int i, ret;
> +		unsigned int i;
> +		int ret;
>  		struct vfio_region_info_cap_sparse_mmap *sparse = NULL;
>  		size_t size;
>  		int nr_areas = 1;
> @@ -1224,6 +1227,10 @@ static long intel_vgpu_ioctl(struct mdev_device *mdev, unsigned int cmd,
>  				if (info.index >= VFIO_PCI_NUM_REGIONS +
>  						vgpu->vdev.num_regions)
>  					return -EINVAL;
> +				info.index =
> +					array_index_nospec(info.index,
> +							VFIO_PCI_NUM_REGIONS +
> +							vgpu->vdev.num_regions);
>  
>  				i = info.index - VFIO_PCI_NUM_REGIONS;
>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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