This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check()
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: nospec-kill-array_index_nospec_mask_check.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 1d91c1d2c80cb70e2e553845e278b87a960c04da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:20:42 -0800 Subject: nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check()
From: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com
commit 1d91c1d2c80cb70e2e553845e278b87a960c04da upstream.
There are multiple problems with the dynamic sanity checking in array_index_nospec_mask_check():
* It causes unnecessary overhead in the 32-bit case since integer sized @index values will no longer cause the check to be compiled away like in the 64-bit case.
* In the 32-bit case it may trigger with user controllable input when the expectation is that should only trigger during development of new kernel enabling.
* The macro reuses the input parameter in multiple locations which is broken if someone passes an expression like 'index++' to array_index_nospec().
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Arjan van de Ven arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151881604278.17395.6605847763178076520.stgit@dwilli... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Cc: Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- include/linux/nospec.h | 22 +--------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 21 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/nospec.h +++ b/include/linux/nospec.h @@ -31,26 +31,6 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_ #endif
/* - * Warn developers about inappropriate array_index_nospec() usage. - * - * Even if the CPU speculates past the WARN_ONCE branch, the - * sign bit of @index is taken into account when generating the - * mask. - * - * This warning is compiled out when the compiler can infer that - * @index and @size are less than LONG_MAX. - */ -#define array_index_mask_nospec_check(index, size) \ -({ \ - if (WARN_ONCE(index > LONG_MAX || size > LONG_MAX, \ - "array_index_nospec() limited to range of [0, LONG_MAX]\n")) \ - _mask = 0; \ - else \ - _mask = array_index_mask_nospec(index, size); \ - _mask; \ -}) - -/* * array_index_nospec - sanitize an array index after a bounds check * * For a code sequence like: @@ -68,7 +48,7 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_ ({ \ typeof(index) _i = (index); \ typeof(size) _s = (size); \ - unsigned long _mask = array_index_mask_nospec_check(_i, _s); \ + unsigned long _mask = array_index_mask_nospec(_i, _s); \ \ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(_i) > sizeof(long)); \ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(_s) > sizeof(long)); \
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.j.williams@intel.com are
queue-4.4/nospec-move-array_index_nospec-parameter-checking-into-separate-macro.patch queue-4.4/nospec-kill-array_index_nospec_mask_check.patch