linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] libahci: Fix possible Spectre-v1 pmp indexing in ahci_led

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Date:   Mon, 18 Jun 2018 11:04:56 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
Cc:     linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libahci: Fix possible Spectre-v1 pmp indexing in
 ahci_led_store()

On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 06:26:33PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> Currently smatch warns of possible Spectre-V1 issue in ahci_led_store():
> drivers/ata/libahci.c:1150 ahci_led_store() warn: potential spectre issue 'pp->em_priv' (local cap)
> 
> Userspace controls @pmp from following callchain:
> em_message->store()
> ->ata_scsi_em_message_store()
> -->ap->ops->em_store()
> --->ahci_led_store()
> 
> After the mask+shift @pmp is effectively an 8b value, which is used to
> index into an array of length 8, so sanitize the array index.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>

Applied to libata/for-4.18-fixes.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun