linux/include
Hugh Dickins 1be7107fbe mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas
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 <oleg@redhat.com>
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-06-19 21:50:20 +08:00
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acpi Merge branch 'acpica-fixes' 2017-06-15 01:52:32 +02:00
asm-generic Kbuild UAPI header export updates for v4.12 2017-05-10 20:45:36 -07:00
clocksource clocksource: arm_arch_timer: add structs to describe MMIO timer 2017-04-19 16:11:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2017-05-03 08:50:52 -07:00
drm drm/dp: start a DPCD based DP sink/branch device quirk database 2017-05-29 13:43:26 +03:00
dt-bindings Sort of on the quieter side this time, which is probably due more 2017-05-10 13:38:18 -07:00
keys KEYS: Split role of the keyring pointer for keyring restrict functions 2017-04-03 10:24:56 -07:00
kvm KVM: arm/arm64: Fix bug when registering redist iodevs 2017-05-18 11:18:12 +02:00
linux mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas 2017-06-19 21:50:20 +08:00
math-emu
media [media] media/cec.h: use IS_REACHABLE instead of IS_ENABLED 2017-06-08 16:52:28 -03:00
memory
misc
net net: Update TCP congestion control documentation 2017-06-05 10:53:24 -04:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma RDMA/SA: Fix kernel panic in CMA request handler flow 2017-06-01 17:20:14 -04:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2017-05-12 11:44:13 -07:00
soc powerpc updates for 4.12 part 2 2017-05-12 10:04:09 -07:00
sound ASoC: Updates for v4.12 2017-05-02 08:25:25 +02:00
target iscsi-target: Fix initial login PDU asynchronous socket close OOPs 2017-05-31 15:12:31 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2017-05-12 11:58:45 -07:00
uapi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-06-15 18:09:47 +09:00
video uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
xen xen: Implement EFI reset_system callback 2017-05-02 12:06:50 +02:00