aio: fix spectre gadget in lookup_ioctx
commit a538e3ff upstream. 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: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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