tty: vt_ioctl: fix potential Spectre v1

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>
CVE-2017-5753

(cherry picked from commit e97267cb4d1ee01ca0929638ec0fcbb0904f903d)
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c
index f7f9b3f4559b4e8006290088c5af33dd33d53f20..9fde0a9e9676d60b269df64e8b13f53022bd7f8e 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
+
 #include <linux/kbd_kern.h>
 #include <linux/vt_kern.h>
 #include <linux/kbd_diacr.h>
@@ -700,6 +702,8 @@ 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);