[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "mm: Don't count the stack guard page towards RLIMIT_STACK" 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: Don't count the stack guard page towards RLIMIT_STACK

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt16.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 1e6e0616f9609ee0de579f0b617770aaaf539177 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:33:57 -0800
Subject: mm: Don't count the stack guard page towards RLIMIT_STACK

commit 690eac53daff34169a4d74fc7bfbd388c4896abb upstream.

Commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error from stack expansion even for
guard page") made sure that we return the error properly for stack
growth conditions.  It also theorized that counting the guard page
towards the stack limit might break something, but also said "Let's see
if anybody notices".

Somebody did notice.  Apparently android-x86 sets the stack limit very
close to the limit indeed, and including the guard page in the rlimit
check causes the android 'zygote' process problems.

So this adds the (fairly trivial) code to make the stack rlimit check be
against the actual real stack size, rather than the size of the vma that
includes the guard page.

Reported-and-tested-by: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang at android-x86.org>
Cc: Jay Foad <jay.foad at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 mm/mmap.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index d407dcd..de25399 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2046,14 +2046,17 @@ static int acct_stack_growth(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long size, uns
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
 	struct rlimit *rlim = current->signal->rlim;
-	unsigned long new_start;
+	unsigned long new_start, actual_size;

 	/* address space limit tests */
 	if (!may_expand_vm(mm, grow))
 		return -ENOMEM;

 	/* Stack limit test */
-	if (size > ACCESS_ONCE(rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur))
+	actual_size = size;
+	if (size && (vma->vm_flags & (VM_GROWSUP | VM_GROWSDOWN)))
+		actual_size -= PAGE_SIZE;
+	if (actual_size > ACCESS_ONCE(rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur))
 		return -ENOMEM;

 	/* mlock limit tests */
--
1.9.1