ext4: fix spectre gadget in ext4_mb_regular_allocator()
authorJeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Thu, 2 Aug 2018 04:03:40 +0000 (00:03 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:08:55 +0000 (13:08 +0200)
commit4bc32484df6a3bdc173301adff0c2fdc66667a40
treef7b56eab7b9cad24594f3571266ab099e884e441
parentc5f7d3c4daf14ba3717fcc1497854d8c365bd742
ext4: fix spectre gadget in ext4_mb_regular_allocator()

commit 1a5d5e5d51e75a5bca67dadbcea8c841934b7b85 upstream.

'ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len' is a user-controlled value which is used in the
derivation of 'ac->ac_2order'. 'ac->ac_2order', in turn, is used to
index arrays which makes it a potential spectre gadget. Fix this by
sanitizing the value assigned to 'ac->ac2_order'.  This covers the
following accesses found with the help of smatch:

* fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1896 ext4_mb_simple_scan_group() warn: potential
  spectre issue 'grp->bb_counters' [w] (local cap)

* fs/ext4/mballoc.c:445 mb_find_buddy() warn: potential spectre issue
  'EXT4_SB(e4b->bd_sb)->s_mb_offsets' [r] (local cap)

* fs/ext4/mballoc.c:446 mb_find_buddy() warn: potential spectre issue
  'EXT4_SB(e4b->bd_sb)->s_mb_maxs' [r] (local cap)

Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ext4/mballoc.c