[PATCH] x86/mm: Fix preallocated PMD stack array

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Oct 08 2018 - 19:54:40 EST


While trying to remove VLAs in pgd_alloc(), a typo was made and a use
of PREALLOCATED_PMDS was replaced with the new MAX_PREALLOCATED_USER_PMDS
(note "...USER..."). Instead, we also need a new MAX_PREALLOCATED_PMDS.
This adds it and fixes the stack array size.

Without this fix, 32-bit kernels would trip the stack protector at boot:

Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: pgd_alloc+0x29e/0x2a0
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 4.19.0-rc6+ #5
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.1-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x66/0x95
panic+0x94/0x1dd
__stack_chk_fail+0x1e/0x20
? pgd_alloc+0x29e/0x2a0
pgd_alloc+0x29e/0x2a0
mm_init.isra.60+0x1ec/0x210
mm_alloc+0x30/0x40
__do_execve_file+0x378/0x930
? __do_execve_file+0x108/0x930
? kmem_cache_alloc+0x123/0x220
do_execve+0x2c/0x30
run_init_process+0x31/0x36
? rest_init+0xb0/0xb0
try_to_run_init_process+0x11/0x33
? rest_init+0xb0/0xb0
kernel_init+0x9e/0xda
ret_from_fork+0x2e/0x38
Kernel Offset: disabled
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: pgd_alloc+0x29e/0x2a0 ]---

Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 1be3f247c288 ("x86/mm: Avoid VLA in pgd_alloc()")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index 386b43e3e0ac..59274e2c1ac4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ static inline void pgd_list_del(pgd_t *pgd)

#define UNSHARED_PTRS_PER_PGD \
(SHARED_KERNEL_PMD ? KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY : PTRS_PER_PGD)
+#define MAX_UNSHARED_PTRS_PER_PGD \
+ max_t(size_t, KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY, PTRS_PER_PGD)


static void pgd_set_mm(pgd_t *pgd, struct mm_struct *mm)
@@ -181,6 +183,7 @@ static void pgd_dtor(pgd_t *pgd)
* and initialize the kernel pmds here.
*/
#define PREALLOCATED_PMDS UNSHARED_PTRS_PER_PGD
+#define MAX_PREALLOCATED_PMDS MAX_UNSHARED_PTRS_PER_PGD

/*
* We allocate separate PMDs for the kernel part of the user page-table
@@ -211,6 +214,7 @@ void pud_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pudp, pmd_t *pmd)

/* No need to prepopulate any pagetable entries in non-PAE modes. */
#define PREALLOCATED_PMDS 0
+#define MAX_PREALLOCATED_PMDS 0
#define PREALLOCATED_USER_PMDS 0
#define MAX_PREALLOCATED_USER_PMDS 0
#endif /* CONFIG_X86_PAE */
@@ -431,7 +435,7 @@ pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
pgd_t *pgd;
pmd_t *u_pmds[MAX_PREALLOCATED_USER_PMDS];
- pmd_t *pmds[MAX_PREALLOCATED_USER_PMDS];
+ pmd_t *pmds[MAX_PREALLOCATED_PMDS];

pgd = _pgd_alloc();

--
2.17.1


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Kees Cook
Pixel Security