On 10/10/18 5:27 PM, Jann Horn wrote:
> Daniel Micay reports that attempting to use MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE in an
> application causes that application to randomly crash. The existing check
> for handling MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE looks up the first VMA that either
> overlaps or follows the requested region, and then bails out if that VMA
> overlaps *the start* of the requested region. It does not bail out if the
> VMA only overlaps another part of the requested region.
>
> Fix it by checking that the found VMA only starts at or after the end of
> the requested region, in which case there is no overlap.
>
> Reported-by: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: a4ff8e8620d3 ("mm: introduce MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Good catch, thanks.
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> index 5f2b2b184c60..f7cd9cb966c0 100644
> --- a/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -1410,7 +1410,7 @@ unsigned long do_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
> if (flags & MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE) {
> struct vm_area_struct *vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
>
> - if (vma && vma->vm_start <= addr)
> + if (vma && vma->vm_start < addr + len)
> return -EEXIST;
> }
>
>
