Expectedly, static analysis reports that 'fd' is a user controlled value that is used as a data dependency to read from the 'fdt->fd' array. In order to avoid potential leaks of kernel memory values, block speculative execution of the instruction stream that could issue reads based on an invalid 'file *' returned from __fcheck_files. Based on an original patch by Elena Reshetova. Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/fdtable.h | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/fdtable.h b/include/linux/fdtable.h index 1c65817673db..4a147c5c2533 100644 --- a/include/linux/fdtable.h +++ b/include/linux/fdtable.h @@ -81,9 +81,10 @@ struct dentry; static inline struct file *__fcheck_files(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd) { struct fdtable *fdt = rcu_dereference_raw(files->fdt); + struct file __rcu **fdp; - if (fd < fdt->max_fds) - return rcu_dereference_raw(fdt->fd[fd]); + if ((fdp = nospec_array_ptr(fdt->fd, fd, fdt->max_fds))) + return rcu_dereference_raw(*fdp); return NULL; }