[PATCH 1/2 A/Z/Y/X/T] mm/mmap.c: do not blow on PROT_NONE MAP_FIXED holes in the stack

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Mon Jul 17 12:53:28 UTC 2017


From: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>

Commit 1be7107fbe18 ("mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas") has
introduced a regression in some rust and Java environments which are
trying to implement their own stack guard page.  They are punching a new
MAP_FIXED mapping inside the existing stack Vma.

This will confuse expand_{downwards,upwards} into thinking that the
stack expansion would in fact get us too close to an existing non-stack
vma which is a correct behavior wrt safety.  It is a real regression on
the other hand.

Let's work around the problem by considering PROT_NONE mapping as a part
of the stack.  This is a gros hack but overflowing to such a mapping
would trap anyway an we only can hope that usespace knows what it is
doing and handle it propely.

Fixes: 1be7107fbe18 ("mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170705182849.GA18027@dhcp22.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
Debugged-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse.cz>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w at 1wt.eu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>

CVE-2017-1000364

(cherry picked from commit 561b5e0709e4a248c67d024d4d94b6e31e3edf2f)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
---
 mm/mmap.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 7f8cfe9..d190287 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2244,7 +2244,8 @@ int expand_upwards(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)
 		gap_addr = TASK_SIZE;
 
 	next = vma->vm_next;
-	if (next && next->vm_start < gap_addr) {
+	if (next && next->vm_start < gap_addr &&
+			(next->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_READ|VM_EXEC))) {
 		if (!(next->vm_flags & VM_GROWSUP))
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		/* Check that both stack segments have the same anon_vma? */
@@ -2328,7 +2329,8 @@ int expand_downwards(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (gap_addr > address)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	prev = vma->vm_prev;
-	if (prev && prev->vm_end > gap_addr) {
+	if (prev && prev->vm_end > gap_addr &&
+			(prev->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_READ|VM_EXEC))) {
 		if (!(prev->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN))
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		/* Check that both stack segments have the same anon_vma? */
-- 
2.7.4





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