4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com>

commit 23d6aef74da86a33fa6bb75f79565e0a16ee97c2 upstream.

`resource' can be 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:

  kernel/sys.c:1474 __do_compat_sys_old_getrlimit() warn: potential spectre 
issue 'get_current()->signal->rlim' (local cap)
  kernel/sys.c:1455 __do_sys_old_getrlimit() warn: potential spectre issue 
'get_current()->signal->rlim' (local cap)

Fix this by sanitizing *resource* before using it to index
current->signal->rlim

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

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180515030038.ga11...@embeddedor.com
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/sys.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1395,6 +1395,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(old_getrlimit, unsigned
        if (resource >= RLIM_NLIMITS)
                return -EINVAL;
 
+       resource = array_index_nospec(resource, RLIM_NLIMITS);
        task_lock(current->group_leader);
        x = current->signal->rlim[resource];
        task_unlock(current->group_leader);
@@ -1414,6 +1415,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE2(old_getrlimit, un
        if (resource >= RLIM_NLIMITS)
                return -EINVAL;
 
+       resource = array_index_nospec(resource, RLIM_NLIMITS);
        task_lock(current->group_leader);
        r = current->signal->rlim[resource];
        task_unlock(current->group_leader);


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