linux-kernel - [PATCH] hwmon: (nct6775) Fix potential Spectre v1

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Date:   Wed, 15 Aug 2018 08:14:37 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] hwmon: (nct6775) Fix potential Spectre v1

val can be 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:

vers/hwmon/nct6775.c:2698 store_pwm_weight_temp_sel() warn: potential
spectre issue 'data->temp_src' [r]

Fix this by sanitizing val before using it to index data->temp_src

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@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---
 drivers/hwmon/nct6775.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/nct6775.c b/drivers/hwmon/nct6775.c
index c6bd61e..944f5b6 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/nct6775.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/nct6775.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <linux/dmi.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
 #include "lm75.h"
 
 #define USE_ALTERNATE
@@ -2689,6 +2690,7 @@ store_pwm_weight_temp_sel(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 		return err;
 	if (val > NUM_TEMP)
 		return -EINVAL;
+	val = array_index_nospec(val, NUM_TEMP + 1);
 	if (val && (!(data->have_temp & BIT(val - 1)) ||
 		    !data->temp_src[val - 1]))
 		return -EINVAL;
-- 
2.7.4