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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2018-12-21 14:49:01 -0600
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-12-22 15:06:17 -0800
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net: core: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability
flen 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/core/filter.c:1101 bpf_check_classic() warn: potential spectre issue 'filter' [w] Fix this by sanitizing flen before using it to index filter at line 1101: switch (filter[flen - 1].code) { and through pc at line 1040: const struct sock_filter *ftest = &filter[pc]; 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@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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