This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled exec: Limit arg stack to at most 75% of _STK_LIM to the 4.9-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: exec-limit-arg-stack-to-at-most-75-of-_stk_lim.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From da029c11e6b12f321f36dac8771e833b65cec962 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 11:57:29 -0700 Subject: exec: Limit arg stack to at most 75% of _STK_LIM From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit da029c11e6b12f321f36dac8771e833b65cec962 upstream. To avoid pathological stack usage or the need to special-case setuid execs, just limit all arg stack usage to at most 75% of _STK_LIM (6MB). Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/exec.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -215,8 +215,7 @@ static struct page *get_arg_page(struct if (write) { unsigned long size = bprm->vma->vm_end - bprm->vma->vm_start; - unsigned long ptr_size; - struct rlimit *rlim; + unsigned long ptr_size, limit; /* * Since the stack will hold pointers to the strings, we @@ -245,14 +244,16 @@ static struct page *get_arg_page(struct return page; /* - * Limit to 1/4-th the stack size for the argv+env strings. + * Limit to 1/4 of the max stack size or 3/4 of _STK_LIM + * (whichever is smaller) for the argv+env strings. * This ensures that: * - the remaining binfmt code will not run out of stack space, * - the program will have a reasonable amount of stack left * to work from. */ - rlim = current->signal->rlim; - if (size > READ_ONCE(rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur) / 4) + limit = _STK_LIM / 4 * 3; + limit = min(limit, rlimit(RLIMIT_STACK) / 4); + if (size > limit) goto fail; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/binfmt_elf-use-elf_et_dyn_base-only-for-pie.patch queue-4.9/exec-limit-arg-stack-to-at-most-75-of-_stk_lim.patch queue-4.9/s390-reduce-elf_et_dyn_base.patch queue-4.9/arm-move-elf_et_dyn_base-to-4mb.patch queue-4.9/arm64-move-elf_et_dyn_base-to-4gb-4mb.patch queue-4.9/selftests-capabilities-fix-the-test_execve-test.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-move-elf_et_dyn_base-to-4gb-4mb.patch