linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 11/19] vfs, fdtable: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <151571804437.27429.14767161104132594707.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:47:24 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@...el.com>,
        alan@...ux.intel.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 11/19] vfs,
 fdtable: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution

Expectedly, static analysis reports that 'fd' is a user controlled value
that is used as a data dependency to read from the 'fdt->fd' array.  In
order to avoid potential leaks of kernel memory values, block
speculative execution of the instruction stream that could issue reads
based on an invalid 'file *' returned from __fcheck_files.

Based on an original patch by Elena Reshetova.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
---
 include/linux/fdtable.h |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fdtable.h b/include/linux/fdtable.h
index 1c65817673db..9731f1a255db 100644
--- a/include/linux/fdtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/fdtable.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
@@ -81,9 +82,11 @@ struct dentry;
 static inline struct file *__fcheck_files(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd)
 {
 	struct fdtable *fdt = rcu_dereference_raw(files->fdt);
+	struct file __rcu **fdp;
 
-	if (fd < fdt->max_fds)
-		return rcu_dereference_raw(fdt->fd[fd]);
+	fdp = array_ptr(fdt->fd, fd, fdt->max_fds);
+	if (fdp)
+		return rcu_dereference_raw(*fdp);
 	return NULL;
 }