* [PATCH] mm/usercopy: harden bounds checking for vmalloc allocations
@ 2026-07-22 14:29 Dev Jain
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From: Dev Jain @ 2026-07-22 14:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kees, akpm
Cc: Dev Jain, gustavoars, linux-hardening, linux-mm, linux-kernel,
ryan.roberts, anshuman.khandual, david, urezki
The vmalloc allocator stores the actual allocation size inside the
vm_struct structure. We can use this bound in usercopy instead of the
page-aligned va_end to catch usercopy beyond the actual allocation size.
For vmap, the requested_size field is always page-aligned since it maps a
certain number of pages. Same for vm_map_ram (alongwith, not even having
a vm_struct). So the check is only relevant for vmalloc mappings.
Because there are early vm areas registered even before vmalloc_init,
requested_size may be zero. So also check whether the requested_size
is set.
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
---
Applies on mm-new (3d18f3499c48).
mm/usercopy.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c
index 5de7a518b1b1c..772681aff8477 100644
--- a/mm/usercopy.c
+++ b/mm/usercopy.c
@@ -176,10 +176,28 @@ static inline void check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
if (is_vmalloc_addr(ptr) && !pagefault_disabled()) {
struct vmap_area *area = find_vmap_area(addr);
+ struct vm_struct *vm;
if (!area)
usercopy_abort("vmalloc", "no area", to_user, 0, n);
+ vm = area->vm;
+ /*
+ * Mappings with a vm_struct track the originally requested
+ * size. Check against that rather than the page-rounded
+ * vmap_area->va_end so copies cannot reach vmalloc tail
+ * padding. vmap mappings are always page aligned.
+ */
+ if (vm && (vm->flags & VM_ALLOC) && vm->requested_size) {
+ unsigned long size = vm->requested_size;
+
+ offset = addr - area->va_start;
+ if (offset > size || n > size - offset)
+ usercopy_abort("vmalloc", NULL, to_user,
+ offset, n);
+ return;
+ }
+
if (n > area->va_end - addr) {
offset = addr - area->va_start;
usercopy_abort("vmalloc", NULL, to_user, offset, n);
--
2.43.0
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