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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	 Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	 linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,  linux-aio@kvack.org,
	 linux-mm@kvack.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aio: Convert ioctx_table to XArray
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 17:26:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49pnuee1gm.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x49va46e1p0.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (Jeff Moyer's message of "Thu, 06 Dec 2018 17:21:31 -0500")

Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> writes:

> Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> writes:
>
>> This custom resizing array was vulnerable to a Spectre attack (speculating
>> off the end of an array to a user-controlled offset).  The XArray is
>> not vulnerable to Spectre as it always masks its lookups to be within
>> the bounds of the array.
>
> I'm not a big fan of completely re-writing the code to fix this.  Isn't
> the below patch sufficient?

Too quick on the draw.  Here's a patch that compiles.  ;-)

Cheers,
Jeff

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 97f983592925..aac9659381d2 100644
--- 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))

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-06 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-28 18:35 [PATCH] aio: Convert ioctx_table to XArray Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-06 21:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-06 22:21 ` Jeff Moyer
2018-12-06 22:26   ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2018-12-11 17:21     ` Jeff Moyer
2018-12-11 17:51       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-11 18:02         ` Jeff Moyer
2018-12-11 18:05           ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-11 18:09             ` Jeff Moyer
2018-12-11 18:37               ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-11 18:32             ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-11 18:36               ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-11 18:51               ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-11 18:52                 ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-11 18:41 ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-11 18:45   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-11 18:46     ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-11 18:53       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-11 18:54         ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-11 18:53       ` Jens Axboe

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