From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>,
Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/hfi1: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 12:14:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46095f6fd184092280401dc530f8a80478b5a1b0.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190731175428.GA16736@embeddedor>
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On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 12:54 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> sl is controlled by user-space, hence leading to a potential
> exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability.
>
> Fix this by sanitizing sl before using it to index ibp->sl_to_sc.
>
> Notice that given that speculation windows are large, the policy is
> to kill the speculation on the first load and not worry if it can be
> completed with a dependent load/store [1].
>
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180423164740.GY17484@dhcp22.suse.cz/
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
> ---
Thanks, applied to for-rc.
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2019-07-31 17:54 [PATCH] IB/hfi1: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability Gustavo A. R. Silva
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