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Re: [PATCH] powerpc/kernel: Fix potential spectre v1 in syscall

From: Christophe Leroy <hidden>
Date: 2024-03-12 08:18:51

+Nathan as this is RTAS related.

Le 21/08/2018 à 20:42, Breno Leitao a écrit :
The rtas syscall reads a value from a user-provided structure and uses it
to index an array, being a possible area for a potential spectre v1 attack.
This is the code that exposes this problem.

	args.rets = &args.args[nargs];

The nargs is an user provided value, and the below code is an example where
the 'nargs' value would be set to XX.

	struct rtas_args ra;
	ra.nargs = htobe32(XX);
	syscall(__NR_rtas, &ra);

This patch has been hanging around in patchwork since 2018 and doesn't 
apply anymore. Is it still relevant ? If so, can you rebase et resubmit ?

Thanks
Christophe

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
  arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c | 6 ++++--
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
index 8afd146bc9c7..5ef3c863003d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
  #include <linux/slab.h>
  #include <linux/reboot.h>
  #include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
  
  #include <asm/prom.h>
  #include <asm/rtas.h>
@@ -1056,7 +1057,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(rtas, struct rtas_args __user *, uargs)
  	struct rtas_args args;
  	unsigned long flags;
  	char *buff_copy, *errbuf = NULL;
-	int nargs, nret, token;
+	int index, nargs, nret, token;
  
  	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
  		return -EPERM;
@@ -1084,7 +1085,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(rtas, struct rtas_args __user *, uargs)
  	if (token == RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE)
  		return -EINVAL;
  
-	args.rets = &args.args[nargs];
+	index = array_index_nospec(nargs, ARRAY_SIZE(args.args));
+	args.rets = &args.args[index];
  	memset(args.rets, 0, nret * sizeof(rtas_arg_t));
  
  	/* Need to handle ibm,suspend_me call specially */
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