linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Fix potential spectre vulnerability

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Date:   Fri, 3 Nov 2023 10:31:49 +0800
From:   Kunwu Chan <chentao@...inos.cn>
To:     Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@...ux.intel.com>,
        jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com, joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com,
        rodrigo.vivi@...el.com, airlied@...il.com, daniel@...ll.ch,
        andi.shyti@...ux.intel.com, robdclark@...omium.org,
        jonathan.cavitt@...el.com, andrzej.hajda@...el.com,
        chris.p.wilson@...el.com, alan.previn.teres.alexis@...el.com
Cc:     intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kunwu.chan@...mail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Fix potential spectre vulnerability

Hi Tvrtko,
Thank you very much for your kind suggestion, I have modified it in 
accordance with your suggestion.

On 2023/11/2 19:32, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> 
> On 02/11/2023 10:16, chentao wrote:
>> Fix smatch warning:
>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c:847 set_proto_ctx_sseu()
>> warn: potential spectre issue 'pc->user_engines' [r] (local cap)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: chentao <chentao@...inos.cn>
> 
> I don't know if this is actually exploitable given the time deltas 
> between the index is read from userspace and acted upon here, which is 
> at least two ioctls apart. But I suppose no harm in fixing and for 
> safety so we need to add:
> 
> Fixes: d4433c7600f7 ("drm/i915/gem: Use the proto-context to handle 
> create parameters (v5)")
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # v5.15+
> 
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c 
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
>> index 9a9ff84c90d7..b2fdfc7ca4de 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
>> @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ static int set_proto_ctx_sseu(struct 
>> drm_i915_file_private *fpriv,
>>           if (idx >= pc->num_user_engines)
>>               return -EINVAL;
>> -
> 
> Just please refrain from random whitespace modifications like this blank 
> line removal. If you resend without that you can add my r-b.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tvrtko
> 
>> +        idx = array_index_nospec(idx, pc->num_user_engines);
>>           pe = &pc->user_engines[idx];
>>           /* Only render engine supports RPCS configuration. */