Re: [PATCH] mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas

Willy Tarreau
2017-07-05T13:53:30Z

On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 01:21:54PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-07-05 at 10:14 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 08:36:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > PROT_NONE would explicitly fault but we would simply
> > > run over this mapping too easily and who knows what might end up below
> > > it. So to me the guard gap does its job here.
> >
> > I tend to think that applications that implement their own stack guard
> > using PROT_NONE also assume that they will never perfom unchecked stack
> > allocations larger than their own guard, thus the condition above should
> > never happen. Otherwise they're bogus and/or vulnerable by design and it
> > is their responsibility to fix it.
> >
> > Thus maybe if that helps we could even relax some of the stack guard
> > checks as soon as we meet a PROT_NONE area, allowing VMAs to be tightly
> > packed if the application knows what it's doing. That wouldn't solve
> > the libreoffice issue though, given the lower page is RWX.
>
> How about, instead of looking at permissions, we remember whether vmas
> were allocated with MAP_FIXED and ignore those when evaluating the gap?

I like this idea. It leaves complete control to the application. Our
usual principle of letting people shoot themselves in the foot if they
insist on doing so.

Do you think something like this could work (not even build tested) ?

Willy
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diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index d16f524..8ad7f40 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
#define VM_PFNMAP 0x00000400 /* Page-ranges managed without "struct page", just pure PFN */
#define VM_DENYWRITE 0x00000800 /* ETXTBSY on write attempts.. */

+#define VM_FIXED 0x00001000 /* MAP_FIXED was used */
#define VM_LOCKED 0x00002000
#define VM_IO 0x00004000 /* Memory mapped I/O or similar */

diff --git a/include/linux/mman.h b/include/linux/mman.h
index 9aa863d..4df2659 100644
--- a/include/linux/mman.h
+++ b/include/linux/mman.h
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ static inline int arch_validate_prot(unsigned long prot)
{
return _calc_vm_trans(flags, MAP_GROWSDOWN, VM_GROWSDOWN ) |
_calc_vm_trans(flags, MAP_DENYWRITE, VM_DENYWRITE ) |
+ _calc_vm_trans(flags, MAP_FIXED, VM_FIXED ) |
_calc_vm_trans(flags, MAP_LOCKED, VM_LOCKED );
}
#endif /* _LINUX_MMAN_H */
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 3c4e4d7..b612868 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2145,7 +2145,7 @@ int expand_upwards(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)

next = vma->vm_next;
if (next && next->vm_start < gap_addr) {
- if (!(next->vm_flags & VM_GROWSUP))
+ if (!(next->vm_flags & (VM_GROWSUP|VM_FIXED)))
return -ENOMEM;
/* Check that both stack segments have the same anon_vma? */
}
@@ -2225,7 +2225,7 @@ int expand_downwards(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return -ENOMEM;
prev = vma->vm_prev;
if (prev && prev->vm_end > gap_addr) {
- if (!(prev->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN))
+ if (!(prev->vm_flags & (VM_GROWSDOWN|VM_FIXED)))
return -ENOMEM;
/* Check that both stack segments have the same anon_vma? */
}