Cc:ed Andrew,

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 04:44:47PM +0900, Akira Takeuchi wrote:
> This patch fixes the problem that get_unmapped_area() can return illegal
> address and result in failing mmap(2) etc.
> 
> In case that the address higher than PAGE_SIZE is set to
> /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr, the address lower than mmap_min_addr can be
> returned by get_unmapped_area(), even if you do not pass any virtual address
> hint (i.e. the second argument).
> 
> This is because the current get_unmapped_area() code does not take into
> account mmap_min_addr.
> 
> This leads to two actual problems as follows:
> 
> 1. mmap(2) can fail with EPERM on the process without CAP_SYS_RAWIO,
>    although any illegal parameter is not passed.
> 
> 2. The bottom-up search path after the top-down search might not work in
>    arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown().
> 
> Note: The first and third chunk of my patch, which changes "len" check,
> are for more precise check using mmap_min_addr, and not for solving the
> above problem.
> 
> [How to reproduce]
> 
>       --- test.c -------------------------------------------------
>       #include <stdio.h>
>       #include <unistd.h>
>       #include <sys/mman.h>
>       #include <sys/errno.h>
> 
>       int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>       {
>               void *ret = NULL, *last_map;
>               size_t pagesize = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
> 
>               do {
>                       last_map = ret;
>                       ret = mmap(0, pagesize, PROT_NONE,
>                               MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
>       //              printf("ret=%p\n", ret);
>               } while (ret != MAP_FAILED);
> 
>               if (errno != ENOMEM) {
>                       printf("ERR: unexpected errno: %d (last map=%p)\n",
>                       errno, last_map);
>               }
> 
>               return 0;
>       }
>       ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>       $ gcc -m32 -o test test.c
>       $ sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=65536
>       vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536
>       $ ./test  (run as non-priviledge user)
>       ERR: unexpected errno: 1 (last map=0x10000)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Akira Takeuchi <takeuchi....@jp.panasonic.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Owada <owada.kiyo...@jp.panasonic.com>
> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>

BTW, this bug seems to be very old, so I think this patch is worth
going into all of currently living stable trees.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi

> ---
>  mm/mmap.c |   10 +++++-----
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> index 9d54851..362e5f1 100644
> --- a/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -1856,7 +1856,7 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, unsigned long 
> addr,
>       struct vm_area_struct *vma;
>       struct vm_unmapped_area_info info;
>  
> -     if (len > TASK_SIZE)
> +     if (len > TASK_SIZE - mmap_min_addr)
>               return -ENOMEM;
>  
>       if (flags & MAP_FIXED)
> @@ -1865,7 +1865,7 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, unsigned long 
> addr,
>       if (addr) {
>               addr = PAGE_ALIGN(addr);
>               vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
> -             if (TASK_SIZE - len >= addr &&
> +             if (TASK_SIZE - len >= addr && addr >= mmap_min_addr &&
>                   (!vma || addr + len <= vma->vm_start))
>                       return addr;
>       }
> @@ -1895,7 +1895,7 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, const 
> unsigned long addr0,
>       struct vm_unmapped_area_info info;
>  
>       /* requested length too big for entire address space */
> -     if (len > TASK_SIZE)
> +     if (len > TASK_SIZE - mmap_min_addr)
>               return -ENOMEM;
>  
>       if (flags & MAP_FIXED)
> @@ -1905,14 +1905,14 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, 
> const unsigned long addr0,
>       if (addr) {
>               addr = PAGE_ALIGN(addr);
>               vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
> -             if (TASK_SIZE - len >= addr &&
> +             if (TASK_SIZE - len >= addr && addr >= mmap_min_addr &&
>                               (!vma || addr + len <= vma->vm_start))
>                       return addr;
>       }
>  
>       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 = mm->mmap_base;
>       info.align_mask = 0;
>       addr = vm_unmapped_area(&info);
> -- 
> 1.7.0.4
> 
> 
> -- 
> Akira Takeuchi <takeuchi....@jp.panasonic.com>
> 
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