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Message-ID: <7db4ec5c9444e4b76d45a189fdd37f6483c06bef.1729201904.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:55:25 -0700
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
To: x86@...nel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
	Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Subject: [PATCH v2 6/6] x86/uaccess: Add user pointer masking to clear_user()

Add user pointer masking to clear_user() to mitigate Spectre v1.

A write in a mispredicted access_ok() branch to a user-controlled kernel
address can populate the rest of the affected cache line with kernel
data.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
index 0587830a47e1..8027db7f68c2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static __always_inline __must_check unsigned long __clear_user(void __user *addr
 static __always_inline unsigned long clear_user(void __user *to, unsigned long n)
 {
 	if (__access_ok(to, n))
-		return __clear_user(to, n);
+		return __clear_user(mask_user_address(to), n);
 	return n;
 }
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_UACCESS_64_H */
-- 
2.47.0


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