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<title>mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas</title>
<updated>2017-07-02T16:12:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
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<published>2017-06-19T18:32:47+00:00</published>
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commit 1be7107fbe18eed3e319a6c3e83c78254b693acb upstream.

Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.

This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.

Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.

One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications.  For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).

Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.

Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.

Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[Hugh Dickins: Backported to 3.2]
[bwh: Fix more instances of vma-&gt;vm_start in sparc64 impl. of
 arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown() and generic impl. of
 hugetlb_get_unmapped_area()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>frv: fix clear_user()</title>
<updated>2016-11-20T01:01:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-19T00:54:02+00:00</published>
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commit 3b8767a8f00cc6538ba6b1cf0f88502e2fd2eb90 upstream.

It should check access_ok().  Otherwise a bunch of places turn into
trivially exploitable rootholes.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support</title>
<updated>2015-02-20T00:49:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00</published>
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commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust filenames, context
 - Drop arc, metag, nios2 and lustre changes
 - For sh, patch both 32-bit and 64-bit implementations to use goto bad_area
 - For s390, pass int_code and trans_exc_code as arguments to do_no_context()
   and do_sigsegv()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()</title>
<updated>2011-11-01T00:30:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-01T00:12:51+00:00</published>
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There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>All Arch: remove linkage for sys_nfsservctl system call</title>
<updated>2011-08-26T22:09:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-26T22:03:11+00:00</published>
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The nfsservctl system call is now gone, so we should remove all
linkage for it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'apei' into apei-release</title>
<updated>2011-08-03T15:30:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-03T15:30:42+00:00</published>
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Some trivial conflicts due to other various merges
adding to the end of common lists sooner than this one.

	arch/ia64/Kconfig
	arch/powerpc/Kconfig
	arch/x86/Kconfig
	lib/Kconfig
	lib/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG</title>
<updated>2011-08-03T15:12:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-13T05:14:22+00:00</published>
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cmpxchg() is widely used by lockless code, including NMI-safe lockless
code.  But on some architectures, the cmpxchg() implementation is not
NMI-safe, on these architectures the lockless code may need a
spin_trylock_irqsave() based implementation.

This patch adds a Kconfig option: ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, so that
NMI-safe lockless code can depend on it or provide different
implementation according to it.

On many architectures, cmpxchg is only NMI-safe for several specific
operand sizes. So, ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG define in this patch
only guarantees cmpxchg is NMI-safe for sizeof(unsigned long).

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
CC: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
CC: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
CC: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
CC: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
CC: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
CC: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
CC: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
CC: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.chen@sunplusct.com&gt;
CC: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>frv: remove unnecessary code</title>
<updated>2011-07-30T06:41:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Dietsche</name>
<email>Gregory.Dietsche@cuw.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-29T15:46:16+00:00</published>
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remove unnecessary code that matches this coccinelle pattern

	if (...)
		return ret;
	return ret;

Signed-off-by: Greg Dietsche &lt;Gregory.Dietsche@cuw.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>atomic: cleanup asm-generic atomic*.h inclusion</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arun Sharma</name>
<email>asharma@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T23:09:08+00:00</published>
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After changing all consumers of atomics to include &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;, we
ran into some compile time errors due to this dependency chain:

linux/atomic.h
  -&gt; asm/atomic.h
    -&gt; asm-generic/atomic-long.h

where atomic-long.h could use funcs defined later in linux/atomic.h
without a prototype.  This patches moves the code that includes
asm-generic/atomic*.h to linux/atomic.h.

Archs that need &lt;asm-generic/atomic64.h&gt; need to select
CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64 from now on (some of them used to include it
unconditionally).

Compile tested on i386 and x86_64 with allnoconfig.

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>atomic: move atomic_add_unless to generic code</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arun Sharma</name>
<email>asharma@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T23:09:07+00:00</published>
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This is in preparation for more generic atomic primitives based on
__atomic_add_unless.

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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