linux/arch/mips/mm
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
..
c-octeon.c MIPS: c-r4k: Split user/kernel flush_icache_range() 2016-10-04 16:13:57 +02:00
c-r3k.c MIPS: c-r4k: Split user/kernel flush_icache_range() 2016-10-04 16:13:57 +02:00
c-r4k.c MIPS: c-r4k: Fix Loongson-3's vcache/scache waysize calculation 2017-03-21 23:22:43 +01:00
c-tx39.c MIPS: c-r4k: Split user/kernel flush_icache_range() 2016-10-04 16:13:57 +02:00
cache.c KVM: MIPS/Emulate: Adapt T&E CACHE emulation for Octeon 2017-03-28 15:36:17 +01:00
cerr-sb1.c MIPS: Sibyte: Fix build for SIBYTE_BW_TRACE on BCM1x55 and BCM1x80. 2013-06-21 18:07:02 +02:00
cex-gen.S
cex-oct.S
cex-sb1.S mips: delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h> 2014-01-24 22:39:56 +01:00
dma-default.c This is a tree wide change and has been kept separate for that reason. 2017-02-25 13:45:43 -08:00
extable.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
fault.c MIPS: Remove confusing else statement in __do_page_fault() 2017-04-13 00:47:04 +02:00
gup.c mm: replace get_user_pages_unlocked() write/force parameters with gup_flags 2016-10-18 14:13:37 -07:00
highmem.c MIPS: mm: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h 2016-10-05 01:31:20 +02:00
hugetlbpage.c mm/hugetlb: reduce arch dependent code about huge_pmd_unshare 2015-06-24 17:49:41 -07:00
init.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2017-05-12 09:56:30 -07:00
ioremap.c sched/headers: Prepare to remove the <linux/mm_types.h> dependency from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:37 +01:00
Makefile MIPS: Move pgd_alloc() out of header 2017-02-02 15:06:26 +00:00
mmap.c mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas 2017-06-19 21:50:20 +08:00
page-funcs.S MIPS: Export {copy, clear}_page functions alongside their definitions 2017-01-03 16:48:39 +01:00
page.c MIPS: Export {copy, clear}_page functions alongside their definitions 2017-01-03 16:48:39 +01:00
pgtable-32.c MIPS: mm: fixed mappings: correct initialisation 2017-06-08 14:51:58 +02:00
pgtable-64.c MIPS: Add 48-bit VA space (and 4-level page tables) for 4K pages. 2017-04-10 11:56:06 +02:00
pgtable.c MIPS: Move pgd_alloc() out of header 2017-02-02 15:06:26 +00:00
sc-debugfs.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
sc-ip22.c MIPS: IP22: Fix build error due to binutils 2.25 uselessnes. 2017-01-03 16:34:33 +01:00
sc-mips.c MIPS: sc-mips: L2 cache is inclusive of L1 dcache for CM3 2017-01-03 16:48:40 +01:00
sc-r5k.c MIPS: Remove useless parentheses 2014-11-24 07:44:49 +01:00
sc-rm7k.c MIPS: RM7000: Double locking bug in rm7k_tc_disable() 2016-07-21 10:59:46 +02:00
tlb-funcs.S MIPS: mm: Fix broken microMIPS kernel regression. 2014-05-14 18:11:06 +02:00
tlb-r3k.c MIPS: Retrieve ASID masks using function accepting struct cpuinfo_mips 2016-05-13 14:02:20 +02:00
tlb-r4k.c MIPS: Mask out limit field when calculating wired entry count 2016-11-24 16:44:16 +01:00
tlb-r8k.c MIPS: Retrieve ASID masks using function accepting struct cpuinfo_mips 2016-05-13 14:02:20 +02:00
tlbex-fault.S
tlbex.c MIPS: Add 48-bit VA space (and 4-level page tables) for 4K pages. 2017-04-10 11:56:06 +02:00
uasm-micromips.c MIPS: uasm: Add MTHI/MTLO instructions 2016-07-05 16:08:35 +02:00
uasm-mips.c MIPS: uasm: Add support for LHU. 2017-04-10 11:56:04 +02:00
uasm.c MIPS: uasm: Remove needless ISA abstraction 2017-04-12 13:52:21 +02:00