linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/vmalloc: fix size check for remap_vmalloc_range

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Message-ID: <20190103194054.GB31793@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 3 Jan 2019 20:40:54 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@...e.de>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/vmalloc: fix size check for
 remap_vmalloc_range_partial()

On Thu 03-01-19 20:27:26, Roman Penyaev wrote:
> On 2019-01-03 16:13, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 03-01-19 15:59:52, Roman Penyaev wrote:
> > > area->size can include adjacent guard page but get_vm_area_size()
> > > returns actual size of the area.
> > > 
> > > This fixes possible kernel crash when userspace tries to map area
> > > on 1 page bigger: size check passes but the following
> > > vmalloc_to_page()
> > > returns NULL on last guard (non-existing) page.
> > 
> > Can this actually happen? I am not really familiar with all the callers
> > of this API but VM_NO_GUARD is not really used wildly in the kernel.
> 
> Exactly, by default (VM_NO_GUARD is not set) each area has guard page,
> thus the area->size will be bigger.  The bug is not reproduced if
> VM_NO_GUARD is set.
> 
> > All I can see is kasan na arm64 which doesn't really seem to use it
> > for vmalloc.
> > 
> > So is the problem real or this is a mere cleanup?
> 
> This is the real problem, try this hunk for any file descriptor which
> provides
> mapping, or say modify epoll as example:

OK, my response was more confusing than I intended. I meant to say. Is
there any in kernel code that would allow the bug have had in mind?
In other words can userspace trick any existing code?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs