[PATCH 4.18 018/168] mac80211_hwsim: Fix possible Spectre-v1 for hwsim_world_regdom_custom

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Oct 08 2018 - 14:46:11 EST


4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 3a2af7cccbbaf2362db9053a946a6084e12bfa73 ]

User controls @idx which to be used as index of hwsim_world_regdom_custom.
So, It can be exploited via Spectre-like attack. (speculative execution)

This kind of attack leaks address of hwsim_world_regdom_custom,
It leads an attacker to bypass security mechanism such as KASLR.

So sanitize @idx before using it to prevent attack.

I leveraged strategy [1] to find and exploit this gadget.

[1] https://github.com/jinb-park/linux-exploit/tree/master/exploit-remaining-spectre-gadget/

Signed-off-by: Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@xxxxxxxxx>
[johannes: unwrap URL]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <net/net_namespace.h>
#include <net/netns/generic.h>
#include <linux/rhashtable.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
#include "mac80211_hwsim.h"

#define WARN_QUEUE 100
@@ -3229,6 +3230,9 @@ static int hwsim_new_radio_nl(struct sk_
kfree(hwname);
return -EINVAL;
}
+
+ idx = array_index_nospec(idx,
+ ARRAY_SIZE(hwsim_world_regdom_custom));
param.regd = hwsim_world_regdom_custom[idx];
}