linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.18 17/76] mac80211_hwsim: Fix possible Spectre-v1 for hwsim_world_regdom

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Date:   Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:48:10 +0000
From:   Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>
To:     "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@...il.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.18 17/76] mac80211_hwsim: Fix possible Spectre-v1
 for hwsim_world_regdom_custom

From: Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@...il.com>

[ Upstream commit 3a2af7cccbbaf2362db9053a946a6084e12bfa73 ]

User controls @idx which to be used as index of hwsim_world_regdom_custom.
So, It can be exploited via Spectre-like attack. (speculative execution)

This kind of attack leaks address of hwsim_world_regdom_custom,
It leads an attacker to bypass security mechanism such as KASLR.

So sanitize @idx before using it to prevent attack.

I leveraged strategy [1] to find and exploit this gadget.

[1] https://github.com/jinb-park/linux-exploit/tree/master/exploit-remaining-spectre-gadget/

Signed-off-by: Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@...il.com>
[johannes: unwrap URL]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
index 7d0b460868f9..80e2c8595c7c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <net/net_namespace.h>
 #include <net/netns/generic.h>
 #include <linux/rhashtable.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
 #include "mac80211_hwsim.h"
 
 #define WARN_QUEUE 100
@@ -3229,6 +3230,9 @@ static int hwsim_new_radio_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info)
 			kfree(hwname);
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
+
+		idx = array_index_nospec(idx,
+					 ARRAY_SIZE(hwsim_world_regdom_custom));
 		param.regd = hwsim_world_regdom_custom[idx];
 	}
 
-- 
2.17.1