sched/core: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for sched_prio_to_weight[]

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commit 7281c8dec8 upstream.

> kernel/sched/core.c:6921 cpu_weight_nice_write_s64() warn: potential spectre issue 'sched_prio_to_weight'

Userspace controls @nice, so sanitize the value before using it to
index an array.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: Vulnerable array lookup is in set_load_weight()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

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Peter Zijlstra 2018-04-20 14:29:51 +02:00 • committed by Ben Hutchings

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