vr.mifi is indirectly 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:
net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:1845 ip6mr_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue 'mrt->vif_table' [r] (local cap)
net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:1919 ip6mr_compat_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue 'mrt->vif_table' [r] (local cap)
Fix this by sanitizing vr.mifi before using it to index mrt->vif_table'
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
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CVE-2017-5753
(backported from commit
69d2c86766da2ded2b70281f1bf242cb0d58a778)
[juergh: Adjusted context.]
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <net/ip6_checksum.h>
#include <linux/netconf.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
struct mr6_table {
struct list_head list;
return -EFAULT;
if (vr.mifi >= mrt->maxvif)
return -EINVAL;
+ vr.mifi = array_index_nospec(vr.mifi, mrt->maxvif);
read_lock(&mrt_lock);
vif = &mrt->vif6_table[vr.mifi];
if (MIF_EXISTS(mrt, vr.mifi)) {
return -EFAULT;
if (vr.mifi >= mrt->maxvif)
return -EINVAL;
+ vr.mifi = array_index_nospec(vr.mifi, mrt->maxvif);
read_lock(&mrt_lock);
vif = &mrt->vif6_table[vr.mifi];
if (MIF_EXISTS(mrt, vr.mifi)) {