Commit 621afc67 authored by Julien Thierry's avatar Julien Thierry Committed by Russell King

ARM: 8794/1: uaccess: Prevent speculative use of the current addr_limit

A mispredicted conditional call to set_fs could result in the wrong
addr_limit being forwarded under speculation to a subsequent access_ok
check, potentially forming part of a spectre-v1 attack using uaccess
routines.

This patch prevents this forwarding from taking place, but putting heavy
barriers in set_fs after writing the addr_limit.

Porting commit c2f0ad4f ("arm64: uaccess: Prevent speculative use
of the current addr_limit").
Signed-off-by: default avatarJulien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
parent 18ea66bd
......@@ -69,6 +69,14 @@ extern int __put_user_bad(void);
static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t fs)
{
current_thread_info()->addr_limit = fs;
/*
* Prevent a mispredicted conditional call to set_fs from forwarding
* the wrong address limit to access_ok under speculation.
*/
dsb(nsh);
isb();
modify_domain(DOMAIN_KERNEL, fs ? DOMAIN_CLIENT : DOMAIN_MANAGER);
}
......
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