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Commit ff002269 authored by Jason Wang's avatar Jason Wang Committed by David S. Miller
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vhost: Fix Spectre V1 vulnerability



The idx in vhost_vring_ioctl() was controlled by userspace, hence a
potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability.

Fixing this by sanitizing idx before using it to index d->vqs.

Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b1c23444
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