linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] mm: refuse wrapped vm

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Message-Id: <1468014494-25291-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org>
Date:	Fri,  8 Jul 2016 14:48:14 -0700
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@....es>,
	Ismael Ripoll Ripoll <iripoll@....es>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@...il.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm: refuse wrapped vm_brk requests

The vm_brk() alignment calculations should refuse to overflow. The ELF
loader depending on this, but it has been fixed now. No other unsafe
callers have been found.

Reported-by: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@....es>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 mm/mmap.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index de2c1769cc68..1874ee0e1266 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2625,16 +2625,18 @@ static inline void verify_mm_writelocked(struct mm_struct *mm)
  *  anonymous maps.  eventually we may be able to do some
  *  brk-specific accounting here.
  */
-static int do_brk(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len)
+static int do_brk(unsigned long addr, unsigned long request)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev;
-	unsigned long flags;
+	unsigned long flags, len;
 	struct rb_node **rb_link, *rb_parent;
 	pgoff_t pgoff = addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	int error;
 
-	len = PAGE_ALIGN(len);
+	len = PAGE_ALIGN(request);
+	if (len < request)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	if (!len)
 		return 0;
 
-- 
2.7.4