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slot can be controlled by user-space, hence leading to
a potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability,
as warned by smatch:
	drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c:1479 dvb_ca_en50221_io_write() warn: potential spectre issue 'ca->slot_info' (local cap)
Acked-by: "Jasmin J." <jasmin@anw.at>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>

CVE-2017-5753

(backported from commit 4f5ab5d7)
[juergh:
 - Adjusted context.
 - Folded in a24e6348

 ("media: dvb_ca_en50221: sanity check slot number from userspace").]
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>