Re: [PATCH v2] hugetlb: clean up potential spectre issue warnings

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 18-02-22 13:29:46, Mike Kravetz wrote:
[...]
> @@ -4161,7 +4162,7 @@ static int __init hugepages_setup(char *s)
>  			}
>  			if (tmp >= nr_online_nodes)
>  				goto invalid;
> -			node = tmp;
> +			node = array_index_nospec(tmp, nr_online_nodes);
>  			p += count + 1;
>  			/* Parse hugepages */
>  			if (sscanf(p, "%lu%n", &tmp, &count) != 1)
> @@ -6889,9 +6890,9 @@ static int __init cmdline_parse_hugetlb_cma(char *p)
>  			break;
>  
>  		if (s[count] == ':') {
> -			nid = tmp;
> -			if (nid < 0 || nid >= MAX_NUMNODES)
> +			if (tmp >= MAX_NUMNODES)
>  				break;
> +			nid = array_index_nospec(tmp, MAX_NUMNODES);
>  
>  			s += count + 1;
>  			tmp = memparse(s, &s);

This is an early boot code, how is this supposed to be used as a side
channel?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs