From 23d6aef74da86a33fa6bb75f79565e0a16ee97c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 14:47:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sys.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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 #include +/* Hardening for Spectre-v1 */ +#include + #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); -- 2.11.0