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    uaccess: Add speculation barrier to copy_from_user() · 74e19ef0
    Dave Hansen authored
    The results of "access_ok()" can be mis-speculated.  The result is that
    you can end speculatively:
    
    	if (access_ok(from, size))
    		// Right here
    
    even for bad from/size combinations.  On first glance, it would be ideal
    to just add a speculation barrier to "access_ok()" so that its results
    can never be mis-speculated.
    
    But there are lots of system calls just doing access_ok() via
    "copy_to_user()" and friends (example: fstat() and friends).  Those are
    generally not problematic because they do not _consume_ data from
    userspace other than the pointer.  They are also very quick and common
    system calls that should not be needlessly slowed down.
    
    "copy_from_user()" on the other hand uses a user-controller pointer and
    is frequently followed up with code that might affect caches.  Take
    something like this:
    
    	if (!copy_from_user(&kernelvar, uptr, size))
    		do_something_with(kernelvar);
    
    If userspace passes in an evil 'uptr' that *actually* points to a kernel
    addresses, and then do_something_with() has cache (or other)
    side-effects, it could allow userspace to infer kernel data values.
    
    Add a barrier to the common copy_from_user() code to prevent
    mis-speculated values which happen after the copy.
    
    Also add a stub for architectures that do not define barrier_nospec().
    This makes the macro usable in generic code.
    
    Since the barrier is now usable in generic code, the x86 #ifdef in the
    BPF code can also go away.
    Reported-by: default avatarJordy Zomer <jordyzomer@google.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>   # BPF bits
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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