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| author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2018-05-25 23:47:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-05-26 03:12:11 +0200 |
| commit | 23d6aef74da86a33fa6bb75f79565e0a16ee97c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 553228677345d3d48ebd0d795ef69dfa00871ede /kernel | |
| parent | mm/memory_hotplug: fix leftover use of struct page during hotplug (diff) | |
| download | linux-23d6aef74da86a33fa6bb75f79565e0a16ee97c2.tar.xz linux-23d6aef74da86a33fa6bb75f79565e0a16ee97c2.zip | |
kernel/sys.c: fix potential Spectre v1 issue
`resource' can be 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:
kernel/sys.c:1474 __do_compat_sys_old_getrlimit() warn: potential spectre issue 'get_current()->signal->rlim' (local cap)
kernel/sys.c:1455 __do_sys_old_getrlimit() warn: potential spectre issue 'get_current()->signal->rlim' (local cap)
Fix this by sanitizing *resource* before using it to index
current->signal->rlim
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://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152449131114778&w=2
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180515030038.GA11822@embeddedor.com
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sys.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index b0eee418ee0d..d1b2b8d934bb 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ #include <asm/io.h> #include <asm/unistd.h> +/* Hardening for Spectre-v1 */ +#include <linux/nospec.h> + #include "uid16.h" #ifndef SET_UNALIGN_CTL @@ -1453,6 +1456,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(old_getrlimit, unsigned int, resource, if (resource >= RLIM_NLIMITS) return -EINVAL; + resource = array_index_nospec(resource, RLIM_NLIMITS); task_lock(current->group_leader); x = current->signal->rlim[resource]; task_unlock(current->group_leader); @@ -1472,6 +1476,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE2(old_getrlimit, unsigned int, resource, if (resource >= RLIM_NLIMITS) return -EINVAL; + resource = array_index_nospec(resource, RLIM_NLIMITS); task_lock(current->group_leader); r = current->signal->rlim[resource]; task_unlock(current->group_leader); |