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aio: fix spectre gadget in lookup_ioctx
authorJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:37:49 +0000 (12:37 -0500)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:32:14 +0000 (14:32 -0500)
Matthew pointed out that the ioctx_table is susceptible to spectre v1,
because the index can be controlled by an attacker.  The below patch
should mitigate the attack for all of the aio system calls.

Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/aio.c

index 97f9835929256bfd6027d6958e14fb3ec64d34da..aac9659381d2564542eecaa71932aeea7f6720e2 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/kmap_types.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
@@ -1038,6 +1039,7 @@ static struct kioctx *lookup_ioctx(unsigned long ctx_id)
        if (!table || id >= table->nr)
                goto out;
 
+       id = array_index_nospec(id, table->nr);
        ctx = rcu_dereference(table->table[id]);
        if (ctx && ctx->user_id == ctx_id) {
                if (percpu_ref_tryget_live(&ctx->users))