linux-kernel - [PATCH V2] posix-timers: Protect posix clock array access against speculation

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1802151718320.1296@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:21:55 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
cc:     Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@...vas.dk>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH V2] posix-timers: Protect posix clock array access against
 speculation

The clockid argument of clockid_to_kclock() comes straight from user space
via various syscalls and is used as index into the posix_clocks array.

Protect it against spectre v1 array out of bounds speculation. Remove the
redundant check for !posix_clock[id] as this is another source for
speculation and does not provide any advantage over the return
posix_clock[id] path which returns NULL in that case anyway.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---

V2: Remove the redundant !posix_clocks[id] check.

 kernel/time/posix-timers.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/hashtable.h>
 #include <linux/compat.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
 
 #include "timekeeping.h"
 #include "posix-timers.h"
@@ -1346,11 +1347,15 @@ static const struct k_clock * const posi
 
 static const struct k_clock *clockid_to_kclock(const clockid_t id)
 {
-	if (id < 0)
+	clockid_t idx = id;
+
+	if (id < 0) {
 		return (id & CLOCKFD_MASK) == CLOCKFD ?
 			&clock_posix_dynamic : &clock_posix_cpu;
+	}
 
-	if (id >= ARRAY_SIZE(posix_clocks) || !posix_clocks[id])
+	if (id >= ARRAY_SIZE(posix_clocks))
 		return NULL;
-	return posix_clocks[id];
+
+	return posix_clocks[array_index_nospec(idx, ARRAY_SIZE(posix_clocks))];
 }