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ARM: 8794/1: uaccess: Prevent speculative use of the current addr_limit
authorJulien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:13:23 +0000 (10:13 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Fri, 5 Oct 2018 09:51:15 +0000 (10:51 +0100)
commit64e305252ef64ba4aa070ee905d67130f32f791b
treed57298968c10f00cb662edb7214beec809c1350a
parenta30b7ee474fece11e8371dfb87a04fe8dbb9916a
ARM: 8794/1: uaccess: Prevent speculative use of the current addr_limit

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.

Porting commit 1c5f4a5f18a0ba34 ("arm64: uaccess: Prevent speculative use
of the current addr_limit").

Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h