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[13/45] arm64: uaccess: Prevent speculative use of the current addr_limit

Message ID 1519908862-11425-14-git-send-email-alex.shi@linaro.org
State New
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Series arm Spectre fix backport review for LTS 4.9 | expand

Commit Message

Alex Shi March 1, 2018, 12:53 p.m. UTC 
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>


commit c2f0ad4fc089 upstream.

A mispredicted conditional call to set_fs could result in the wrong
addr_limit being forwarded under speculation to a subsequent access_ok
check, potentially forming part of a spectre-v1 attack using uaccess
routines.

This patch prevents this forwarding from taking place, but putting heavy
barriers in set_fs after writing the addr_limit.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>

---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 3531fec..00025c5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -71,6 +71,13 @@  static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t fs)
 	current_thread_info()->addr_limit = fs;
 
 	/*
+	 * Prevent a mispredicted conditional call to set_fs from forwarding
+	 * the wrong address limit to access_ok under speculation.
+	 */
+	dsb(nsh);
+	isb();
+
+	/*
 	 * Enable/disable UAO so that copy_to_user() etc can access
 	 * kernel memory with the unprivileged instructions.
 	 */