3.16.57-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 19b558db12f9f4e45a22012bae7b4783e62224da upstream. The clockid argument of clockid_to_kclock() comes straight from user space via various syscalls and is used as index into the posix_clocks array. Protect it against spectre v1 array out of bounds speculation. Remove the redundant check for !posix_clock[id] as this is another source for speculation and does not provide any advantage over the return posix_clock[id] path which returns NULL in that case anyway. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1802151718320.1296@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [bwh: Backported to 3.16: - Move the test of the clock_getres field below the lookup using array_index_nospec() - Adjust filename, context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/kernel/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ #include <linux/workqueue.h> #include <linux/export.h> #include <linux/hashtable.h> +#include <linux/nospec.h> /* * Management arrays for POSIX timers. Timers are now kept in static hash table @@ -578,13 +579,21 @@ static void release_posix_timer(struct k static struct k_clock *clockid_to_kclock(const clockid_t id) { - if (id < 0) + clockid_t idx = id; + struct k_clock *kc; + + if (id < 0) { return (id & CLOCKFD_MASK) == CLOCKFD ? &clock_posix_dynamic : &clock_posix_cpu; + } + + if (id >= ARRAY_SIZE(posix_clocks)) + return NULL; - if (id >= MAX_CLOCKS || !posix_clocks[id].clock_getres) + kc = &posix_clocks[array_index_nospec(idx, ARRAY_SIZE(posix_clocks))]; + if (!kc->clock_getres) return NULL; - return &posix_clocks[id]; + return kc; } static int common_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)