[PATCH 2/3] mm/mlock: reject ranges that cannot be represented

From: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga

Date: Mon Oct 05 2026 - 02:53:26 EST


A length within a page of ULONG_MAX wraps when mlock() and munlock()
round the range to pages. At an aligned address the length becomes 0 and
the call is a silent success; at an unaligned one it becomes a single
page, which is then locked or unlocked. An overflowing start + len is
only caught in apply_vma_lock_flags(), after the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK check, so
mlock() returns -ENOMEM without CAP_IPC_LOCK and -EINVAL with it.

Return -EINVAL, as man 2 mlock documents, when start + len overflows or
the end overflows when rounded up to a page. Doing this before
can_do_mlock() also avoids making the result depend on
RLIMIT_MEMLOCK/CAP_IPC_LOCK. Requests that get a silent success today
now fail.

Reported-by: Park Tae-sun <ts930@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/179066531783.50175.13377521828379196177@xxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mlock.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index cc28e5d7413a..a9e2b90c058f 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -608,6 +608,7 @@ static __must_check int do_mlock(unsigned long start, size_t len,
{
unsigned long locked;
unsigned long lock_limit;
+ unsigned long end;
int error = -ENOMEM;

start = untagged_addr(start);
@@ -615,12 +616,19 @@ static __must_check int do_mlock(unsigned long start, size_t len,
if (!len)
return 0;

+ /* Reject a wrapping range before can_do_mlock() and the rlimit check. */
+ end = start + len;
+ if (end < start)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ end = PAGE_ALIGN(end);
+ if (!end)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ start &= PAGE_MASK;
+ len = end - start;
+
if (!can_do_mlock())
return -EPERM;

- len = PAGE_ALIGN(len + (offset_in_page(start)));
- start &= PAGE_MASK;
-
lock_limit = rlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK);
lock_limit >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
locked = len >> PAGE_SHIFT;
@@ -676,6 +684,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mlock2, unsigned long, start, size_t, len, int, flags)

SYSCALL_DEFINE2(munlock, unsigned long, start, size_t, len)
{
+ unsigned long end;
vma_flags_t flags = EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS;
int ret;

@@ -684,8 +693,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(munlock, unsigned long, start, size_t, len)
if (!len)
return 0;

- len = PAGE_ALIGN(len + (offset_in_page(start)));
+ end = start + len;
+ if (end < start)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ end = PAGE_ALIGN(end);
+ if (!end)
+ return -EINVAL;
start &= PAGE_MASK;
+ len = end - start;

if (mmap_write_lock_killable(current->mm))
return -EINTR;
--
2.55.0