tty: vt_ioctl: fix potential Spectre v1
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 20:30:38 +0000 (15:30 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 10:07:34 +0000 (03:07 -0700)
commit e97267cb4d1ee01ca0929638ec0fcbb0904f903d upstream.

vsa.console is indirectly controlled by user-space, hence leading to
a potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability.

This issue was detected with the help of Smatch:

drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:711 vt_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue
'vc_cons' [r]

Fix this by sanitizing vsa.console before using it to index vc_cons

Notice that given that speculation windows are large, the policy is
to kill the speculation on the first load and not worry if it can be
completed with a dependent load/store [1].

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152449131114778&w=2

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c

index f62c598..638eb9b 100644 (file)
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
+
 #include <linux/kbd_kern.h>
 #include <linux/vt_kern.h>
 #include <linux/kbd_diacr.h>
@@ -703,6 +705,8 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty,
                if (vsa.console == 0 || vsa.console > MAX_NR_CONSOLES)
                        ret = -ENXIO;
                else {
+                       vsa.console = array_index_nospec(vsa.console,
+                                                        MAX_NR_CONSOLES + 1);
                        vsa.console--;
                        console_lock();
                        ret = vc_allocate(vsa.console);