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Commit a538e3ff authored by Jeff Moyer's avatar Jeff Moyer Committed by Jens Axboe
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aio: fix spectre gadget in lookup_ioctx



Matthew pointed out that the ioctx_table is susceptible to spectre v1,
because the index can be controlled by an attacker.  The below patch
should mitigate the attack for all of the aio system calls.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reported-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent f55adad6
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