linux-kernel - RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [v2] xen: hypercall: fix out-of-bounds memcpy

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Date:   Mon, 5 Feb 2018 15:28:23 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Andrew Cooper' <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
CC:     "xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [v2] xen: hypercall: fix out-of-bounds memcpy

From: Andrew Cooper
> Sent: 05 February 2018 15:14
> 
> On 05/02/18 15:03, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> Snipping deleted code to make things clearer:
> 
> > +	if (cmd > ARRAY_SIZE(physdevop_len))
> > +		return -ENOSYS;
> >
> > +	len = physdevop_len[cmd];
> > +	memcpy(&op.u, arg, len);
> 
> You'll want an array_nospec() or whatever its called these days.  This
> code is SP1-leaky.
> 
> Userspace controls cmd and can retrieve len by timing how many adjacent
> cache lines were pulled in my memcpy().

Well, maybe it can read beyond the bounds of physdevop_len[].
I doubt that the memcpy() will pull in many cache lines so you
can probably only determine whether the value is 0..63, 64..127 or 128+
Not likely to be much use.

	David