linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fs: fix possible Spectre V1 indexing in __close

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Date:   Mon, 24 Dec 2018 06:40:21 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...roid.com>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Omer Tripp <trippo@...gle.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: fix possible Spectre V1 indexing in __close_fd()

On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 06:26:42AM -0800, Greg Hackmann wrote:
> +++ b/fs/file.c
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
>  #include <linux/bitops.h>
>  #include <linux/spinlock.h>
>  #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
> +#include <linux/nospec.h>
>  
>  unsigned int sysctl_nr_open __read_mostly = 1024*1024;
>  unsigned int sysctl_nr_open_min = BITS_PER_LONG;
> @@ -626,6 +627,7 @@ int __close_fd(struct files_struct *files, unsigned fd)
>  	fdt = files_fdtable(files);
>  	if (fd >= fdt->max_fds)
>  		goto out_unlock;
> +	fd = array_index_nospec(fd, fdt->max_fds);
>  	file = fdt->fd[fd];
>  	if (!file)
>  		goto out_unlock;

This is insufficient.  do_dup2() has a similar problem.