Re: [PATCH 04/18] mm, aout: handle vm_brk failures

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On 02/29/2016 02:26 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

vm_brk is allowed to fail but load_aout_binary simply ignores the error
and happily continues. I haven't noticed any problem from that in real
life but later patches will make the failure more likely because
vm_brk will become killable (resp. mmap_sem for write waiting will become
killable) so we should be more careful now.

The error handling should be quite straightforward because there are
calls to vm_mmap which check the error properly already. The only
notable exception is set_brk which is called after beyond_if label.
But nothing indicates that we cannot move it above set_binfmt as the two
do not depend on each other and fail before we do set_binfmt and alter
reference counting.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Acked--by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

[...]

@@ -378,7 +381,9 @@ static int load_aout_library(struct file *file)
  			       "N_TXTOFF is not page aligned. Please convert library: %pD\n",
  			       file);
  		}
-		vm_brk(start_addr, ex.a_text + ex.a_data + ex.a_bss);
+		retval = vm_brk(start_addr, ex.a_text + ex.a_data + ex.a_bss);
+		if (IS_ERR_VALUE(retval))
+			goto out;
  		

You could have removed the extra whitespace on the line above, which my vim so prominently highlights :)

  		read_code(file, start_addr, N_TXTOFF(ex),
  			  ex.a_text + ex.a_data);


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