linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] ext4: super: Fix spectre gadget in ext4_quota

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Date:   Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:23:55 +0000
From:   Jeremy Cline <jcline@...hat.com>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeremy Cline <jcline@...hat.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ext4: super: Fix spectre gadget in ext4_quota_on

'type' is a user-controlled value used to index into 's_qf_names', which
can be used in a Spectre v1 attack. Clamp 'type' to the size of the
array to avoid a speculative out-of-bounds read.

Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@...hat.com>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 6480e763080f..c04a09b51742 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 #include <linux/crc16.h>
 #include <linux/dax.h>
 #include <linux/cleancache.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/iversion.h>
 
@@ -5559,6 +5560,7 @@ static int ext4_quota_on(struct super_block *sb, int type, int format_id,
 	if (path->dentry->d_sb != sb)
 		return -EXDEV;
 	/* Journaling quota? */
+	type = array_index_nospec(type, EXT4_MAXQUOTAS);
 	if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_qf_names[type]) {
 		/* Quotafile not in fs root? */
 		if (path->dentry->d_parent != sb->s_root)
-- 
2.17.1