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board is 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/atm/iphase.c:2765 ia_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue 'ia_dev' [r] (local cap) drivers/atm/iphase.c:2774 ia_ioctl() warn: possible spectre second half. 'iadev' drivers/atm/iphase.c:2782 ia_ioctl() warn: possible spectre second half. 'iadev' drivers/atm/iphase.c:2816 ia_ioctl() warn: possible spectre second half. 'iadev' drivers/atm/iphase.c:2823 ia_ioctl() warn: possible spectre second half. 'iadev' drivers/atm/iphase.c:2830 ia_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue '_ia_dev' [r] (local cap) drivers/atm/iphase.c:2845 ia_ioctl() warn: possible spectre second half. 'iadev' drivers/atm/iphase.c:2856 ia_ioctl() warn: possible spectre second half. 'iadev' Fix this by sanitizing board before using it to index ia_dev and _ia_dev 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/ Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.