I noticed, that "allowed" can easily overflow by falling below 0,
because (total_vm / 32) can be larger than "allowed". The problem
occurs in OVERCOMMIT_NONE mode.
In this case, a huge allocation can success and overcommit the system
(despite OVERCOMMIT_NONE mode). All subsequent allocations will fall
(system-wide), so system become unusable.
The problem was masked out by commit c9b1d0981fcc
("mm: limit growth of 3% hardcoded other user reserve"),
but it's easy to reproduce it on older kernels:
1) set overcommit_memory sysctl to 2
2) mmap() large file multiple times (with VM_SHARED flag)
3) try to malloc() large amount of memory
It also can be reproduced on newer kernels, but miss-configured
sysctl_user_reserve_kbytes is required.
Fix this issue by switching to signed arithmetic here.
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
mm/nommu.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index b51eadf..e1fd67b 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -1894,7 +1894,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unmap_mapping_range);
*/
int __vm_enough_memory(struct mm_struct *mm, long pages, int cap_sys_admin)
{
- unsigned long free, allowed, reserve;
+ long free, allowed, reserve;
vm_acct_memory(pages);
@@ -1958,7 +1958,7 @@ int __vm_enough_memory(struct mm_struct *mm, long pages, int cap_sys_admin)
*/
if (mm) {
reserve = sysctl_user_reserve_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
- allowed -= min(mm->total_vm / 32, reserve);
+ allowed -= min_t(long, mm->total_vm / 32, reserve);
}
if (percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as) < allowed)
--
2.1.0
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