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Davidlohr Bueso
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Both smatch and coverity are reporting potential issues with spectre variant 1 with the 'semnum' index within the sma->sems array, ie: ipc/sem.c:388 sem_lock() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems' ipc/sem.c:641 perform_atomic_semop_slow() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems' ipc/sem.c:721 perform_atomic_semop() warn: potential spectre issue 'sma->sems' Avoid any possible speculation by using array_index_nospec() thus ensuring the semnum value is bounded to [0, sma->sem_nsems). With the exception of sem_lock() all of these are slowpaths. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180423171131.njs4rfm2yzyeg6do@linux-n805 Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]> Cc: Manfred Spraul <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Linux kernel
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