Re: Patch "ipc/shm: fix crash if CONFIG_SHMEM is not set" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

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On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     ipc/shm: fix crash if CONFIG_SHMEM is not set
> 
> to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> The filename of the patch is:
>      ipc-shm-fix-crash-if-config_shmem-is-not-set.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.

The <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [4.7.x] tag was mistakenly added to this
commit: the commit to be fixed went into v4.8-rc1, and there is no
reason to expect that it will ever be backported to 4.7.x.  I don't
think this change to ramfs will do any actual harm in 4.7.x, but it
is rather odd to include it.

Hugh

> 
> 
> From 31b4beb473e3bdee1bf79db849502dcb24b5c202 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:44:18 -0700
> Subject: ipc/shm: fix crash if CONFIG_SHMEM is not set
> 
> From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 31b4beb473e3bdee1bf79db849502dcb24b5c202 upstream.
> 
> Commit c01d5b300774 ("shmem: get_unmapped_area align huge page") makes
> use of shm_get_unmapped_area() in shm_file_operations() unconditional to
> CONFIG_MMU.
> 
> As Tony Battersby pointed this can lead NULL-pointer dereference on
> machine with CONFIG_MMU=y and CONFIG_SHMEM=n.  In this case ipc/shm is
> backed by ramfs which doesn't provide f_op->get_unmapped_area for
> configurations with MMU.
> 
> The solution is to provide dummy f_op->get_unmapped_area for ramfs when
> CONFIG_MMU=y, which just call current->mm->get_unmapped_area().
> 
> Fixes: c01d5b300774 ("shmem: get_unmapped_area align huge page")
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912102704.140442-1-kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
>  fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c |    9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c
> +++ b/fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c
> @@ -27,9 +27,17 @@
>  #include <linux/fs.h>
>  #include <linux/mm.h>
>  #include <linux/ramfs.h>
> +#include <linux/sched.h>
>  
>  #include "internal.h"
>  
> +static unsigned long ramfs_mmu_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file,
> +		unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, unsigned long pgoff,
> +		unsigned long flags)
> +{
> +	return current->mm->get_unmapped_area(file, addr, len, pgoff, flags);
> +}
> +
>  const struct file_operations ramfs_file_operations = {
>  	.read_iter	= generic_file_read_iter,
>  	.write_iter	= generic_file_write_iter,
> @@ -38,6 +46,7 @@ const struct file_operations ramfs_file_
>  	.splice_read	= generic_file_splice_read,
>  	.splice_write	= iter_file_splice_write,
>  	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
> +	.get_unmapped_area	= ramfs_mmu_get_unmapped_area,
>  };
>  
>  const struct inode_operations ramfs_file_inode_operations = {
> 
> 
> Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
> 
> queue-4.7/ipc-shm-fix-crash-if-config_shmem-is-not-set.patch
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