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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-01-20 11:03:20 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-01-21 16:14:17 +0100
commit739790605705ddcf18f21782b9c99ad7d53a8c11 (patch)
tree8d357b05077c04b9100fd0835cd6dac2bd1040f0 /kernel
parent9be182da0a7526f1b9a3777a336f83baa2e64d23 (diff)
prlimit: do_prlimit needs to have a speculation check
do_prlimit() adds the user-controlled resource value to a pointer that will subsequently be dereferenced. In order to help prevent this codepath from being used as a spectre "gadget" a barrier needs to be added after checking the range. Reported-by: Jordy Zomer <jordyzomer@google.com> Tested-by: Jordy Zomer <jordyzomer@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 5fd54bf0e886..88b31f096fb2 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1442,6 +1442,8 @@ static int do_prlimit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int resource,
if (resource >= RLIM_NLIMITS)
return -EINVAL;
+ resource = array_index_nospec(resource, RLIM_NLIMITS);
+
if (new_rlim) {
if (new_rlim->rlim_cur > new_rlim->rlim_max)
return -EINVAL;