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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Dianzhang Chen <dianzhangchen0@gmail.com>
Cc: cl@linux.com, penberg@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com,
	iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab_common.c: fix possible spectre-v1 in kmalloc_slab()
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 12:48:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190529194852.GA23461@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1559133448-31779-1-git-send-email-dianzhangchen0@gmail.com>

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 08:37:28PM +0800, Dianzhang Chen wrote:
> The `size` in kmalloc_slab() is indirectly controlled by userspace via syscall: poll(defined in fs/select.c), hence leading to a potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability.
> The `size` can be controlled from: poll -> do_sys_poll -> kmalloc -> __kmalloc -> kmalloc_slab.
> 
> Fix this by sanitizing `size` before using it to index size_index.

I think it makes more sense to sanitize size in size_index_elem(),
don't you?

 static inline unsigned int size_index_elem(unsigned int bytes)
 {
-	return (bytes - 1) / 8;
+	return array_index_nospec((bytes - 1) / 8, ARRAY_SIZE(size_index));
 }

(untested)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-29 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-29 12:37 [PATCH] mm/slab_common.c: fix possible spectre-v1 in kmalloc_slab() Dianzhang Chen
2019-05-29 16:25 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-29 16:39   ` Dianzhang Chen
2019-05-29 17:49     ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-30  5:20       ` Dianzhang Chen
2019-05-30  6:24         ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-30  7:01           ` Dianzhang Chen
2019-05-29 19:48 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2019-05-30  5:21   ` Dianzhang Chen
2019-05-29 20:31 Alexey Dobriyan
2019-05-30  0:04 ` Matthew Wilcox

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