[PATCH 3.16 59/76] x86/spectre: Report get_user mitigation for spectre_v1

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sun Mar 11 2018 - 23:09:58 EST


3.16.56-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

commit edfbae53dab8348fca778531be9f4855d2ca0360 upstream.

Reflect the presence of get_user(), __get_user(), and 'syscall' protections
in sysfs. The expectation is that new and better tooling will allow the
kernel to grow more usages of array_index_nospec(), for now, only claim
mitigation for __user pointer de-references.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: kernel-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727420158.33451.11658324346540434635.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ ssize_t cpu_show_spectre_v1(struct devic
{
if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V1))
return sprintf(buf, "Not affected\n");
- return sprintf(buf, "Vulnerable\n");
+ return sprintf(buf, "Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization\n");
}

ssize_t cpu_show_spectre_v2(struct device *dev,