4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> [ Upstream commit 14d6e289a89780377f8bb09de8926d3c62d763cd ] It's possible for userspace to control idx. Sanitize idx when using it as an array index, to inhibit the potential spectre-v1 write gadget. Found by smatch. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.le...@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -277,19 +277,22 @@ static int ptrace_hbp_set_event(unsigned switch (note_type) { case NT_ARM_HW_BREAK: - if (idx < ARM_MAX_BRP) { - tsk->thread.debug.hbp_break[idx] = bp; - err = 0; - } + if (idx >= ARM_MAX_BRP) + goto out; + idx = array_index_nospec(idx, ARM_MAX_BRP); + tsk->thread.debug.hbp_break[idx] = bp; + err = 0; break; case NT_ARM_HW_WATCH: - if (idx < ARM_MAX_WRP) { - tsk->thread.debug.hbp_watch[idx] = bp; - err = 0; - } + if (idx >= ARM_MAX_WRP) + goto out; + idx = array_index_nospec(idx, ARM_MAX_WRP); + tsk->thread.debug.hbp_watch[idx] = bp; + err = 0; break; } +out: return err; }