linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs: prevent out-of-bounds array speculation when closing a file descriptor

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Date:   Mon,  6 Mar 2023 13:54:50 -0500
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH] fs: prevent out-of-bounds array speculation when closing a file descriptor

Google-Bug-Id: 114199369
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
---

I had sent this a while back, and failed to follow up when it
apparently get missed.  $WORK has been carrying this (or the
equivalent) as an out-of-tree security patch since 2018, and now some
folks are now nagging me about why hasn't this gone upstream yet...

 fs/file.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index c942c89ca4cd..7893ea161d77 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -642,6 +642,7 @@ static struct file *pick_file(struct files_struct *files, unsigned fd)
 	if (fd >= fdt->max_fds)
 		return NULL;
 
+	fd = array_index_nospec(fd, fdt->max_fds);
 	file = fdt->fd[fd];
 	if (file) {
 		rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[fd], NULL);
-- 
2.31.0