[PATCH] mm: fix new crash in unmapped_area_topdown()

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Tue Jun 20 2017 - 05:23:45 EST


Trinity gets kernel BUG at mm/mmap.c:1963! in about 3 minutes of
mmap testing. That's the VM_BUG_ON(gap_end < gap_start) at the
end of unmapped_area_topdown(). Linus points out how MAP_FIXED
(which does not have to respect our stack guard gap intentions)
could result in gap_end below gap_start there. Fix that, and
the similar case in its alternative, unmapped_area().

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 1be7107fbe18 ("mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas")
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Debugged-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

mm/mmap.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- 4.12-rc6/mm/mmap.c 2017-06-19 09:06:10.035407505 -0700
+++ linux/mm/mmap.c 2017-06-19 21:09:28.616707311 -0700
@@ -1817,7 +1817,8 @@ unsigned long unmapped_area(struct vm_un
/* Check if current node has a suitable gap */
if (gap_start > high_limit)
return -ENOMEM;
- if (gap_end >= low_limit && gap_end - gap_start >= length)
+ if (gap_end >= low_limit &&
+ gap_end > gap_start && gap_end - gap_start >= length)
goto found;

/* Visit right subtree if it looks promising */
@@ -1920,7 +1921,8 @@ unsigned long unmapped_area_topdown(stru
gap_end = vm_start_gap(vma);
if (gap_end < low_limit)
return -ENOMEM;
- if (gap_start <= high_limit && gap_end - gap_start >= length)
+ if (gap_start <= high_limit &&
+ gap_end > gap_start && gap_end - gap_start >= length)
goto found;

/* Visit left subtree if it looks promising */