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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2018-08-15 10:50:41 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-09-12 09:31:00 +0200
commitde916736aaaadddbd6061472969f667b14204aa9 (patch)
tree540add0d0bf39d78d40664c1d6687b2444c27acd /drivers/misc
parent86503bd35dec0ce363e9fdbf5299927422ed3899 (diff)
misc: hmc6352: fix potential Spectre v1
val 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: drivers/misc/hmc6352.c:54 compass_store() warn: potential spectre issue 'map' [r] Fix this by sanitizing val before using it to index map 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@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/hmc6352.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/hmc6352.c b/drivers/misc/hmc6352.c
index eeb7eef62174..38f90e179927 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/hmc6352.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/hmc6352.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/sysfs.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
static DEFINE_MUTEX(compass_mutex);
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ static int compass_store(struct device *dev, const char *buf, size_t count,
return ret;
if (val >= strlen(map))
return -EINVAL;
+ val = array_index_nospec(val, strlen(map));
mutex_lock(&compass_mutex);
ret = compass_command(c, map[val]);
mutex_unlock(&compass_mutex);