Re: [PATCH v2] mmap: Fix do_brk_flags() modifying obviously incorrect VMAs

[Jann Horn]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:13 PM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/5/22 22:55, Jann Horn wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 9:32 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 5 Dec 2022 19:23:17 +0000 Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Add more sanity checks to the VMA that do_brk_flags() will expand.
> >> > Ensure the VMA matches basic merge requirements within the function
> >> > before calling can_vma_merge_after().
> >>
> >> I't unclear what's actually being fixed here.
> >>
> >> Why do you feel we need the above changes?
> >>
> >> > Drop the duplicate checks from vm_brk_flags() since they will be
> >> > enforced later.
> >> >
> >> > Fixes: 2e7ce7d354f2 ("mm/mmap: change do_brk_flags() to expand existing VMA and add do_brk_munmap()")
> >>
> >> Fixes in what way?  Removing the duplicate checks?
> >
> > The old code would expand file VMAs on brk(), which is functionally
> > wrong and also dangerous in terms of locking because the brk() path
> > isn't designed for file VMAs and therefore doesn't lock the file
> > mapping. Checking can_vma_merge_after() ensures that new anonymous
> > VMAs can't be merged into file VMAs.
> >
> > See https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAG48ez1tJZTOjS_FjRZhvtDA-STFmdw8PEizPDwMGFd_ui0Nrw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > .
>
> I guess the point is that if we fix it still within 6.1, we don't have to
> devise how exactly this is exploitable,

Yeah, that was sort of my thinking.

> but due to the insufficient locking
> it most likely is, right?

To be honest, I don't really know how bad this is - pretty much the
only thing we're doing here is to change the VMA end. I don't know if
that messes up the address_space's interval tree or something?
I have no clue how that data structure looks.