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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] ext4: super: Fix spectre gadget in ext4_quota_on
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 04:23:55PM +0000, Jeremy Cline wrote:
> '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@redhat.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.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)

Generally we try to put the array_index_nospec() close to the bounds
check for which it's trying to prevent speculation past.

In this case, I'd expect the EXT4_MAXQUOTAS bounds check to be in
do_quotactl(), but it seems to be missing:

if (type >= (XQM_COMMAND(cmd) ? XQM_MAXQUOTAS : MAXQUOTAS))
return -EINVAL;

Also it looks like XQM_MAXQUOTAS, MAXQUOTAS, and EXT4_MAXQUOTAS all have
the same value (3). Maybe they can be consolidated to just use
MAXQUOTAS everywhere? Then the nospec would be simple:

if (type >= MAXQUOTAS)
return -EINVAL;
type = array_index_nospec(type, MAXQUOTAS);

Otherwise I think we may need to disperse the array_index_nospec calls
deeper in the callchain.
--
Josh

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