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    ext4: fix spectre gadget in ext4_mb_regular_allocator() · 5b6ea348
    Jeremy Cline authored
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     upstream.
    
    'ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len' is a user-controlled value which is used in the
    derivation of 'ac->ac_2order'. 'ac->ac_2order', in turn, is used to
    index arrays which makes it a potential spectre gadget. Fix this by
    sanitizing the value assigned to 'ac->ac2_order'.  This covers the
    following accesses found 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)
    
    Suggested-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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