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    usbip: vhci_sysfs: fix potential Spectre v1 · a0d6ec88
    Gustavo A. R. Silva authored
    pdev_nr and rhport can be controlled by user-space, hence leading to
    a potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability.
    
    This issue was detected with the help of Smatch:
    drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c:238 detach_store() warn: potential spectre issue 'vhcis'
    drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c:328 attach_store() warn: potential spectre issue 'vhcis'
    drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c:338 attach_store() warn: potential spectre issue 'vhci->vhci_hcd_ss->vdev'
    drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c:340 attach_store() warn: potential spectre issue 'vhci->vhci_hcd_hs->vdev'
    
    Fix this by sanitizing pdev_nr and rhport before using them to index
    vhcis and vhci->vhci_hcd_ss->vdev respectively.
    
    Notice that given that speculation windows are large, the policy is
    to kill the speculation on the first load and not worry if it can be
    completed with a dependent load/store [1].
    
    [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152449131114778&w=2
    
    
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarShuah Khan (Samsung OSG) <shuah@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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