[PATCH 3/3] ext4: mballoc: Fix spectre gadget in ext4_mb_simple_scan_group

From: Jeremy Cline
Date: Fri Jul 27 2018 - 12:25:30 EST


'ac->ac_2order' is a user-controlled value used to index into
'grp->bb_counters' and based on the value at that index, 'ac->ac_found'
is written to. Clamp the value right after the bounds check to avoid a
speculative out-of-bounds read of 'grp->bb_counters'.

This also protects the access of the s_mb_offsets and s_mb_maxs arrays
inside mb_find_buddy().

These gadgets were discovered with the help of smatch:

* fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1896 ext4_mb_simple_scan_group() warn: potential
spectre issue 'grp->bb_counters' [w] (local cap)

* fs/ext4/mballoc.c:445 mb_find_buddy() warn: potential spectre issue
'EXT4_SB(e4b->bd_sb)->s_mb_offsets' [r] (local cap)

* fs/ext4/mballoc.c:446 mb_find_buddy() warn: potential spectre issue
'EXT4_SB(e4b->bd_sb)->s_mb_maxs' [r] (local cap)

Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index f7ab34088162..c0866007a949 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/log2.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <trace/events/ext4.h>

@@ -1893,6 +1894,7 @@ void ext4_mb_simple_scan_group(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac,

BUG_ON(ac->ac_2order <= 0);
for (i = ac->ac_2order; i <= sb->s_blocksize_bits + 1; i++) {
+ i = array_index_nospec(i, sb->s_blocksize_bits + 2);
if (grp->bb_counters[i] == 0)
continue;

--
2.17.1