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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2018-02-23 11:42:03 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-02-25 11:03:53 +0100
commitfd3d9535450c3c9b720bae22419c7419f50decf6 (patch)
tree36b9c44c9b1ba0de762dead111694eb53ca828a6 /arch/x86/entry/common.c
parent64d41d13ed81d55e03c80d241cf353b1aa0bf1c3 (diff)
x86/get_user: Use pointer masking to limit speculation
(cherry picked from commit c7f631cb07e7da06ac1d231ca178452339e32a94) Quoting Linus: I do think that it would be a good idea to very expressly document the fact that it's not that the user access itself is unsafe. I do agree that things like "get_user()" want to be protected, but not because of any direct bugs or problems with get_user() and friends, but simply because get_user() is an excellent source of a pointer that is obviously controlled from a potentially attacking user space. So it's a prime candidate for then finding _subsequent_ accesses that can then be used to perturb the cache. Unlike the __get_user() case get_user() includes the address limit check near the pointer de-reference. With that locality the speculation can be mitigated with pointer narrowing rather than a barrier, i.e. array_index_nospec(). Where the narrowing is performed by: cmp %limit, %ptr sbb %mask, %mask and %mask, %ptr With respect to speculation the value of %ptr is either less than %limit or NULL. Co-developed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: alan@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727417469.33451.11804043010080838495.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> [jwang: port to 4.4] Signed-off-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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