3.2.90-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 09884964335e85e897876d17783c2ad33cf8a2e0 upstream. The stack vma is designed to grow automatically (marked with VM_GROWSUP or VM_GROWSDOWN depending on architecture) when an access is made beyond the existing boundary. However, particularly if you have not limited your stack at all ("ulimit -s unlimited"), this can cause the stack to grow even if the access was really just one past *another* segment. And that's wrong, especially since we first grow the segment, but then immediately later enforce the stack guard page on the last page of the segment. So _despite_ first growing the stack segment as a result of the access, the kernel will then make the access cause a SIGSEGV anyway! So do the same logic as the guard page check does, and consider an access to within one page of the next segment to be a bad access, rather than growing the stack to abut the next segment. Reported-and-tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1802,9 +1802,28 @@ int expand_downwards(struct vm_area_stru return error; } +/* + * Note how expand_stack() refuses to expand the stack all the way to + * abut the next virtual mapping, *unless* that mapping itself is also + * a stack mapping. We want to leave room for a guard page, after all + * (the guard page itself is not added here, that is done by the + * actual page faulting logic) + * + * This matches the behavior of the guard page logic (see mm/memory.c: + * check_stack_guard_page()), which only allows the guard page to be + * removed under these circumstances. + */ #ifdef CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP int expand_stack(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address) { + struct vm_area_struct *next; + + address &= PAGE_MASK; + next = vma->vm_next; + if (next && next->vm_start == address + PAGE_SIZE) { + if (!(next->vm_flags & VM_GROWSUP)) + return -ENOMEM; + } return expand_upwards(vma, address); } @@ -1827,6 +1846,14 @@ find_extend_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, un #else int expand_stack(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address) { + struct vm_area_struct *prev; + + address &= PAGE_MASK; + prev = vma->vm_prev; + if (prev && prev->vm_end == address) { + if (!(prev->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN)) + return -ENOMEM; + } return expand_downwards(vma, address); }