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x86: Increase MIN_GAP to include randomized stack 

Currently we are not including randomized stack size when calculating
mmap_base address in arch_pick_mmap_layout for topdown case. This might
cause that mmap_base starts in the stack reserved area because stack is
randomized by 1GB for 64b (8MB for 32b) and the minimum gap is 128MB.

If the stack really grows down to mmap_base then we can get silent mmap
region overwrite by the stack values.

Let's include maximum stack randomization size into MIN_GAP which is
used as the low bound for the gap in mmap.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1252400515-6866-1-git-send-email-mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Stable Team <stable@kernel.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Michal Hocko 2009-09-08 11:01:55 +02:00 committed by H. Peter Anvin
parent 7135a71b19
commit 80938332d8
2 changed files with 17 additions and 2 deletions
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arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
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@ -299,6 +299,8 @@ do { \
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
#define STACK_RND_MASK (0x7ff)
#define VDSO_HIGH_BASE (__fix_to_virt(FIX_VDSO))
#define ARCH_DLINFO ARCH_DLINFO_IA32(vdso_enabled)

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arch/x86/mm/mmap.c
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@ -29,13 +29,26 @@
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/limits.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <asm/elf.h>
static unsigned int stack_maxrandom_size(void)
{
unsigned int max = 0;
if ((current->flags & PF_RANDOMIZE) &&
!(current->personality & ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE)) {
max = ((-1U) & STACK_RND_MASK) << PAGE_SHIFT;
}
return max;
}
/*
* Top of mmap area (just below the process stack).
*
* Leave an at least ~128 MB hole.
* Leave an at least ~128 MB hole with possible stack randomization.
*/
#define MIN_GAP (128*1024*1024)
#define MIN_GAP (128*1024*1024UL + stack_maxrandom_size())
#define MAX_GAP (TASK_SIZE/6*5)
/*