[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "mm: ensure get_unmapped_area() returns higher address than" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mm: ensure get_unmapped_area() returns higher address than

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.14.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From d8a0cf7c94bd90cb003705c9bce345872cc5c92a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Akira Takeuchi <takeuchi.akr at jp.panasonic.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:08:21 -0800
Subject: mm: ensure get_unmapped_area() returns higher address than
 mmap_min_addr

commit 2afc745f3e3079ab16c826be4860da2529054dd2 upstream.

This patch fixes the problem that get_unmapped_area() can return illegal
address and result in failing mmap(2) etc.

In case that the address higher than PAGE_SIZE is set to
/proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr, the address lower than mmap_min_addr can be
returned by get_unmapped_area(), even if you do not pass any virtual
address hint (i.e.  the second argument).

This is because the current get_unmapped_area() code does not take into
account mmap_min_addr.

This leads to two actual problems as follows:

1. mmap(2) can fail with EPERM on the process without CAP_SYS_RAWIO,
   although any illegal parameter is not passed.

2. The bottom-up search path after the top-down search might not work in
   arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown().

Note: The first and third chunk of my patch, which changes "len" check,
are for more precise check using mmap_min_addr, and not for solving the
above problem.

[How to reproduce]

	--- test.c -------------------------------------------------
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <sys/mman.h>
	#include <sys/errno.h>

	int main(int argc, char *argv[])
	{
		void *ret = NULL, *last_map;
		size_t pagesize = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);

		do {
			last_map = ret;
			ret = mmap(0, pagesize, PROT_NONE,
				MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
	//		printf("ret=%p\n", ret);
		} while (ret != MAP_FAILED);

		if (errno != ENOMEM) {
			printf("ERR: unexpected errno: %d (last map=%p)\n",
			errno, last_map);
		}

		return 0;
	}
	---------------------------------------------------------------

	$ gcc -m32 -o test test.c
	$ sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=65536
	vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536
	$ ./test  (run as non-priviledge user)
	ERR: unexpected errno: 1 (last map=0x10000)

Signed-off-by: Akira Takeuchi <takeuchi.akr at jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Owada <owada.kiyoshi at jp.panasonic.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi at ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 mm/mmap.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 82fbbab..44ec3e6 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1786,7 +1786,7 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, unsigned long addr,
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 	struct vm_unmapped_area_info info;

-	if (len > TASK_SIZE)
+	if (len > TASK_SIZE - mmap_min_addr)
 		return -ENOMEM;

 	if (flags & MAP_FIXED)
@@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, unsigned long addr,
 	if (addr) {
 		addr = PAGE_ALIGN(addr);
 		vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
-		if (TASK_SIZE - len >= addr &&
+		if (TASK_SIZE - len >= addr && addr >= mmap_min_addr &&
 		    (!vma || addr + len <= vma->vm_start))
 			return addr;
 	}
@@ -1834,7 +1834,7 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, const unsigned long addr0,
 	struct vm_unmapped_area_info info;

 	/* requested length too big for entire address space */
-	if (len > TASK_SIZE)
+	if (len > TASK_SIZE - mmap_min_addr)
 		return -ENOMEM;

 	if (flags & MAP_FIXED)
@@ -1844,14 +1844,14 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, const unsigned long addr0,
 	if (addr) {
 		addr = PAGE_ALIGN(addr);
 		vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
-		if (TASK_SIZE - len >= addr &&
+		if (TASK_SIZE - len >= addr && addr >= mmap_min_addr &&
 				(!vma || addr + len <= vma->vm_start))
 			return addr;
 	}

 	info.flags = VM_UNMAPPED_AREA_TOPDOWN;
 	info.length = len;
-	info.low_limit = PAGE_SIZE;
+	info.low_limit = max(PAGE_SIZE, mmap_min_addr);
 	info.high_limit = mm->mmap_base;
 	info.align_mask = 0;
 	addr = vm_unmapped_area(&info);
--
1.8.3.2