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From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Zhenguo Yao <yaozhenguo1@gmail.com>,
	Liu Yuntao <liuyuntao10@huawei.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hugetlb: clean up potential spectre issue warnings
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 12:24:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <26565cd7-01b0-197c-6ce9-af92f5bc8563@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YhNQf3LUZzNRD7u0@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On 2/21/22 00:42, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 18-02-22 13:29:46, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> [...]
>> @@ -4161,7 +4162,7 @@ static int __init hugepages_setup(char *s)
>>  			}
>>  			if (tmp >= nr_online_nodes)
>>  				goto invalid;
>> -			node = tmp;
>> +			node = array_index_nospec(tmp, nr_online_nodes);
>>  			p += count + 1;
>>  			/* Parse hugepages */
>>  			if (sscanf(p, "%lu%n", &tmp, &count) != 1)
>> @@ -6889,9 +6890,9 @@ static int __init cmdline_parse_hugetlb_cma(char *p)
>>  			break;
>>  
>>  		if (s[count] == ':') {
>> -			nid = tmp;
>> -			if (nid < 0 || nid >= MAX_NUMNODES)
>> +			if (tmp >= MAX_NUMNODES)
>>  				break;
>> +			nid = array_index_nospec(tmp, MAX_NUMNODES);
>>  
>>  			s += count + 1;
>>  			tmp = memparse(s, &s);
> 
> This is an early boot code, how is this supposed to be used as a side
> channel?

I do not have an evil hacker mind, but I can not think of a way this one time
use of a user specified index could be an issue.  It does add noise to the
BUILD REGRESSION emails sent to Andrew.

-- 
Mike Kravetz


  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-21 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-18 21:29 Mike Kravetz
2022-02-21  8:42 ` Michal Hocko
2022-02-21 20:24   ` Mike Kravetz [this message]
2022-02-22  7:47     ` Michal Hocko
2022-02-22 16:15       ` Schaufler, Casey
2022-02-22 16:36         ` Dan Carpenter
2022-02-23  8:35           ` Michal Hocko
2022-02-22 21:53       ` Mike Kravetz
2022-02-23  8:33         ` Michal Hocko
2022-02-23 18:36           ` Mike Kravetz
2022-02-24  9:31             ` Michal Hocko
2022-02-24  4:41         ` Andrew Morton

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