array_index_nospec: Sanitize speculative array de-references
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:02:22 +0000 (17:02 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 7 Feb 2018 19:12:22 +0000 (11:12 -0800)
commit478742cf80b732f6c3227c572184e18b6e8bcb05
tree5deb344bf66cd429d491fa98b3eca946a5e21938
parente72041f70c3c7d149a8c444262173b7e70e3d4f8
array_index_nospec: Sanitize speculative array de-references

commit f3804203306e098dae9ca51540fcd5eb700d7f40

array_index_nospec() is proposed as a generic mechanism to mitigate
against Spectre-variant-1 attacks, i.e. an attack that bypasses boundary
checks via speculative execution. The array_index_nospec()
implementation is expected to be safe for current generation CPUs across
multiple architectures (ARM, x86).

Based on an original implementation by Linus Torvalds, tweaked to remove
speculative flows by Alexei Starovoitov, and tweaked again by Linus to
introduce an x86 assembly implementation for the mask generation.

Co-developed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Co-developed-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Cyril Novikov <cnovikov@lynx.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727414229.33451.18411580953862676575.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/nospec.h [new file with mode: 0644]