[PATCH 159/173] exec: make argv/envp memory visible to oom-killer

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Mon Apr 25 2011 - 16:33:01 EST


2.6.27.59-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 3c77f845722158206a7209c45ccddc264d19319c upstream.

Brad Spengler published a local memory-allocation DoS that
evades the OOM-killer (though not the virtual memory RLIMIT):
http://www.grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c

execve()->copy_strings() can allocate a lot of memory, but
this is not visible to oom-killer, nobody can see the nascent
bprm->mm and take it into account.

With this patch get_arg_page() increments current's MM_ANONPAGES
counter every time we allocate the new page for argv/envp. When
do_execve() succeds or fails, we change this counter back.

Technically this is not 100% correct, we can't know if the new
page is swapped out and turn MM_ANONPAGES into MM_SWAPENTS, but
I don't think this really matters and everything becomes correct
once exec changes ->mm or fails.

Reported-by: Brad Spengler <spender@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-and-discussed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
fs/exec.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/binfmts.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: longterm-2.6.27/fs/exec.c
===================================================================
--- longterm-2.6.27.orig/fs/exec.c 2011-02-09 22:45:33.000000000 +0100
+++ longterm-2.6.27/fs/exec.c 2011-04-25 17:22:50.655279537 +0200
@@ -168,6 +168,21 @@

#ifdef CONFIG_MMU

+static void acct_arg_size(struct linux_binprm *bprm, unsigned long pages)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
+ long diff = (long)(pages - bprm->vma_pages);
+
+ if (!mm || !diff)
+ return;
+
+ bprm->vma_pages = pages;
+
+ down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ mm->total_vm += diff;
+ up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+}
+
static struct page *get_arg_page(struct linux_binprm *bprm, unsigned long pos,
int write)
{
@@ -190,6 +205,8 @@
unsigned long size = bprm->vma->vm_end - bprm->vma->vm_start;
struct rlimit *rlim;

+ acct_arg_size(bprm, size / PAGE_SIZE);
+
/*
* We've historically supported up to 32 pages (ARG_MAX)
* of argument strings even with small stacks
@@ -291,6 +308,10 @@

#else

+static inline void acct_arg_size(struct linux_binprm *bprm, unsigned long pages)
+{
+}
+
static struct page *get_arg_page(struct linux_binprm *bprm, unsigned long pos,
int write)
{
@@ -995,6 +1016,7 @@
/*
* Release all of the old mmap stuff
*/
+ acct_arg_size(bprm, 0);
retval = exec_mmap(bprm->mm);
if (retval)
goto out;
@@ -1378,8 +1400,10 @@
security_bprm_free(bprm);

out_mm:
- if (bprm->mm)
+ if (bprm->mm) {
+ acct_arg_size(bprm, 0);
mmput (bprm->mm);
+ }

out_file:
if (bprm->file) {
Index: longterm-2.6.27/include/linux/binfmts.h
===================================================================
--- longterm-2.6.27.orig/include/linux/binfmts.h 2011-01-23 10:52:34.000000000 +0100
+++ longterm-2.6.27/include/linux/binfmts.h 2011-04-25 17:22:24.856278432 +0200
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
char buf[BINPRM_BUF_SIZE];
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+ unsigned long vma_pages;
#else
# define MAX_ARG_PAGES 32
struct page *page[MAX_ARG_PAGES];


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