Commit ff002269 authored by Jason Wang's avatar Jason Wang Committed by David S. Miller

vhost: Fix Spectre V1 vulnerability

The idx in vhost_vring_ioctl() was controlled by userspace, hence a
potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability.

Fixing this by sanitizing idx before using it to index d->vqs.

Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b1c23444
......@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
#include <linux/sched/signal.h>
#include <linux/interval_tree_generic.h>
#include <linux/nospec.h>
#include "vhost.h"
......@@ -1387,6 +1388,7 @@ long vhost_vring_ioctl(struct vhost_dev *d, unsigned int ioctl, void __user *arg
if (idx >= d->nvqs)
return -ENOBUFS;
idx = array_index_nospec(idx, d->nvqs);
vq = d->vqs[idx];
mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
......
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment