Patch "mm/mmap.c: do not blow on PROT_NONE MAP_FIXED holes in the stack" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm/mmap.c: do not blow on PROT_NONE MAP_FIXED holes in the stack

to the 4.4-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:
     mm-mmap.c-do-not-blow-on-prot_none-map_fixed-holes-in-the-stack.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 561b5e0709e4a248c67d024d4d94b6e31e3edf2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:49:51 -0700
Subject: mm/mmap.c: do not blow on PROT_NONE MAP_FIXED holes in the stack

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

commit 561b5e0709e4a248c67d024d4d94b6e31e3edf2f upstream.

Commit 1be7107fbe18 ("mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas") has
introduced a regression in some rust and Java environments which are
trying to implement their own stack guard page.  They are punching a new
MAP_FIXED mapping inside the existing stack Vma.

This will confuse expand_{downwards,upwards} into thinking that the
stack expansion would in fact get us too close to an existing non-stack
vma which is a correct behavior wrt safety.  It is a real regression on
the other hand.

Let's work around the problem by considering PROT_NONE mapping as a part
of the stack.  This is a gros hack but overflowing to such a mapping
would trap anyway an we only can hope that usespace knows what it is
doing and handle it propely.

Fixes: 1be7107fbe18 ("mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170705182849.GA18027@dhcp22.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Debugged-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/mmap.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2188,7 +2188,8 @@ int expand_upwards(struct vm_area_struct
 		gap_addr = TASK_SIZE;
 
 	next = vma->vm_next;
-	if (next && next->vm_start < gap_addr) {
+	if (next && next->vm_start < gap_addr &&
+			(next->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_READ|VM_EXEC))) {
 		if (!(next->vm_flags & VM_GROWSUP))
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		/* Check that both stack segments have the same anon_vma? */
@@ -2273,7 +2274,8 @@ int expand_downwards(struct vm_area_stru
 	if (gap_addr > address)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	prev = vma->vm_prev;
-	if (prev && prev->vm_end > gap_addr) {
+	if (prev && prev->vm_end > gap_addr &&
+			(prev->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_READ|VM_EXEC))) {
 		if (!(prev->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN))
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		/* Check that both stack segments have the same anon_vma? */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mhocko@suse.com are

queue-4.4/fs-select-add-vmalloc-fallback-for-select-2.patch
queue-4.4/hwpoison-memcg-forcibly-uncharge-lru-pages.patch
queue-4.4/mm-mmap.c-do-not-blow-on-prot_none-map_fixed-holes-in-the-stack.patch