proto 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/nfc/af_nfc.c:42 nfc_sock_create() warn: potential spectre issue 'proto_tab' [w] (local cap)
Fix this by sanitizing proto before using it to index proto_tab.
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>
#include <linux/nfc.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
#include "nfc.h"
if (proto < 0 || proto >= NFC_SOCKPROTO_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
+ proto = array_index_nospec(proto, NFC_SOCKPROTO_MAX);
read_lock(&proto_tab_lock);
if (proto_tab[proto] && try_module_get(proto_tab[proto]->owner)) {