drm/bufs: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability
idx can be indirectly controlled by user-space, hence leading to a potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability. This issue was detected with the help of Smatch: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bufs.c:1420 drm_legacy_freebufs() warn: potential spectre issue 'dma->buflist' [r] (local cap) Fix this by sanitizing idx before using it to index dma->buflist 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://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152449131114778&w=2Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181016095549.GA23586@embeddedor.com
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