Add more sanity checks to the VMA that do_brk_flags() will expand. Ensure the VMA matches basic merge requirements within the function before calling can_vma_merge_after(). Drop the duplicate checks from vm_brk_flags() since they will be enforced later. Fixes: 2e7ce7d354f2 ("mm/mmap: change do_brk_flags() to expand existing VMA and add do_brk_munmap()") Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index a5eb2f175da0..5d48170fc2b2 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -2946,9 +2946,9 @@ static int do_brk_flags(struct ma_state *mas, struct vm_area_struct *vma, * Expand the existing vma if possible; Note that singular lists do not * occur after forking, so the expand will only happen on new VMAs. */ - if (vma && - (!vma->anon_vma || list_is_singular(&vma->anon_vma_chain)) && - ((vma->vm_flags & ~VM_SOFTDIRTY) == flags)) { + if (vma && vma->vm_end == addr && !vma_policy(vma) && + can_vma_merge_after(vma, flags, NULL, NULL, + addr >> PAGE_SHIFT, NULL_VM_UFFD_CTX, NULL)) { mas_set_range(mas, vma->vm_start, addr + len - 1); if (mas_preallocate(mas, vma, GFP_KERNEL)) return -ENOMEM; @@ -3035,11 +3035,6 @@ int vm_brk_flags(unsigned long addr, unsigned long request, unsigned long flags) goto munmap_failed; vma = mas_prev(&mas, 0); - if (!vma || vma->vm_end != addr || vma_policy(vma) || - !can_vma_merge_after(vma, flags, NULL, NULL, - addr >> PAGE_SHIFT, NULL_VM_UFFD_CTX, NULL)) - vma = NULL; - ret = do_brk_flags(&mas, vma, addr, len, flags); populate = ((mm->def_flags & VM_LOCKED) != 0); mmap_write_unlock(mm); -- 2.35.1