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Commit 73979060 authored by Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar Greg Kroah-Hartman
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prlimit: do_prlimit needs to have a speculation check



do_prlimit() adds the user-controlled resource value to a pointer that
will subsequently be dereferenced.  In order to help prevent this
codepath from being used as a spectre "gadget" a barrier needs to be
added after checking the range.

Reported-by: default avatarJordy Zomer <jordyzomer@google.com>
Tested-by: default avatarJordy Zomer <jordyzomer@google.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 9be182da
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