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Commit ec67aaa4 authored by Davidlohr Bueso's avatar Davidlohr Bueso Committed by Linus Torvalds
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sysvipc/sem: mitigate semnum index against spectre v1

Both smatch and coverity are reporting potential issues with spectre
variant 1 with the 'semnum' index within the sma->sems array, ie:

  ipc/sem.c:388 sem_lock() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems'
  ipc/sem.c:641 perform_atomic_semop_slow() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems'
  ipc/sem.c:721 perform_atomic_semop() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems'

Avoid any possible speculation by using array_index_nospec() thus
ensuring the semnum value is bounded to [0, sma->sem_nsems).  With the
exception of sem_lock() all of these are slowpaths.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180423171131.njs4rfm2yzyeg6do@linux-n805


Signed-off-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Reported-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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