It prevent situation when vm_unmapped_area chose address between PAGE_SIZE and mmap_min_addr range. In this case mmap will fail with EPERM without a good reason.
As test-case of such situation we may hard-code address between PAGE_SIZE and 65536 inside unmapped_area_topdown function. Signed-off-by: Ilya Smith <blackz...@gmail.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c | 5 +++-- arch/x86/mm/mmap.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c index 676774b9bb8d..1752fe5cb735 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ #include <linux/random.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> #include <linux/elf.h> +#include <linux/security.h> #include <asm/elf.h> #include <asm/compat.h> @@ -185,7 +186,7 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, const unsigned long addr0, return addr; /* requested length too big for entire address space */ - if (len > TASK_SIZE) + if (len > TASK_SIZE - mmap_min_addr) return -ENOMEM; /* No address checking. See comment at mmap_address_hint_valid() */ @@ -210,7 +211,7 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, const unsigned long addr0, info.flags = VM_UNMAPPED_AREA_TOPDOWN; info.length = len; - info.low_limit = PAGE_SIZE; + info.low_limit = max(PAGE_SIZE, mmap_min_addr); info.high_limit = get_mmap_base(0); /* diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c index 155ecbac9e28..b6d0c317639e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ #include <linux/sched/signal.h> #include <linux/sched/mm.h> #include <linux/compat.h> +#include <linux/security.h> #include <asm/elf.h> #include "physaddr.h" @@ -220,6 +221,9 @@ bool mmap_address_hint_valid(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len) if (TASK_SIZE - len < addr) return false; + if (addr < mmap_min_addr) + return false; + return (addr > DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW) == (addr + len > DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW); } -- 2.14.1