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This CVE points out a bad backport of a fix on stable kernels, the diff fixing it is as follows:
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index 1ca929767a1b..0b6d27dfc234 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -698,11 +698,10 @@ static unsigned long ptrace_get_debugreg(struct task_struct *tsk, int n)
{
struct thread_struct *thread = &tsk->thread;
unsigned long val = 0;
- int index = n;
if (n < HBP_NUM) {
+ int index = array_index_nospec(n, HBP_NUM);
struct perf_event *bp = thread->ptrace_bps[index];
- index = array_index_nospec(index, HBP_NUM);
if (bp)
val = bp->hw.info.address;
It's going to be almost impossible to detect it on a running kernel, unfortunately.
https://grsecurity.net/teardown_of_a_failed_linux_lts_spectre_fix.php
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