[PATCH 0/3] ext4: fix spectre v1 gadgets

From: Jeremy Cline
Date: Fri Jul 27 2018 - 12:25:10 EST


Hi folks,

This patch set fixes a few Spectre v1 gadgets in ext4 detected with the
help of Smatch.

Note that because the speculation window is large, the policy is to stop
the speculative out-of-bounds load and not worry if the attack can be
completed with a dependent load or store[0].

[0] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152449131114778

Jeremy Cline (3):
ext4: super: Fix spectre gadget in ext4_quota_on
ext4: super: Fix spectre gadgets in ext4_quota_{read,write,off}
ext4: mballoc: Fix spectre gadget in ext4_mb_simple_scan_group

fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 2 ++
fs/ext4/super.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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