linux/arch/arm/mm
Hugh Dickins 1be7107fbe mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas
Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.

This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.

Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.

One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications.  For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).

Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.

Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.

Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-06-19 21:50:20 +08:00
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abort-ev4.S
abort-ev4t.S
abort-ev5t.S
abort-ev5tj.S
abort-ev6.S
abort-ev7.S
abort-lv4t.S
abort-macro.S
abort-nommu.S
alignment.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
cache-aurora-l2.h
cache-fa.S
cache-feroceon-l2.c
cache-l2x0-pmu.c
cache-l2x0.c ARM: 8659/1: l2c: allow CA9 optimizations to be disabled 2017-03-17 10:01:26 +00:00
cache-nop.S
cache-tauros2.c
cache-tauros3.h
cache-uniphier.c ARM: 8652/1: cache-uniphier: clean up active way setup code 2017-02-28 11:06:17 +00:00
cache-v4.S
cache-v4wb.S
cache-v4wt.S
cache-v6.S
cache-v7.S scripts/spelling.txt: add "swith" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
cache-v7m.S scripts/spelling.txt: add "swith" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
cache-xsc3l2.c
context.c
copypage-fa.c
copypage-feroceon.c
copypage-v4mc.c
copypage-v4wb.c
copypage-v4wt.c
copypage-v6.c
copypage-xsc3.c
copypage-xscale.c
dma-mapping.c arm: dma-mapping: Reset the device's dma_ops 2017-05-30 11:31:34 +02:00
dma.h
dump.c ARM: 8666/1: mm: dump: Add domain to output 2017-03-29 17:39:17 +01:00
extable.c
fault-armv.c
fault.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
fault.h ARM: 8642/1: LPAE: catch pending imprecise abort on unmask 2017-01-30 12:04:12 +00:00
flush.c
fsr-2level.c
fsr-3level.c
highmem.c
hugetlbpage.c
idmap.c sched/headers: Prepare to remove the <linux/mm_types.h> dependency from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:37 +01:00
init.c ARM: 8672/1: mm: remove tasklist locking from update_sections_early() 2017-04-26 10:59:36 +01:00
iomap.c
ioremap.c ARM: Implement pci_remap_cfgspace() interface 2017-04-24 13:53:13 -05:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2017-02-28 11:50:53 -08:00
l2c-common.c
l2c-l2x0-resume.S
Makefile ARM: 8640/1: Add support for CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2017-02-28 11:06:09 +00:00
mm.h
mmap.c mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas 2017-06-19 21:50:20 +08:00
mmu.c * ARM: HYP mode stub supports kexec/kdump on 32-bit; improved PMU 2017-05-08 12:37:56 -07:00
nommu.c pci-v4.12-changes 2017-05-08 19:03:25 -07:00
pabort-legacy.S
pabort-v6.S
pabort-v7.S
pageattr.c arm: use set_memory.h header 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
pgd.c
physaddr.c ARM: 8640/1: Add support for CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2017-02-28 11:06:09 +00:00
proc-arm7tdmi.S
proc-arm9tdmi.S
proc-arm720.S
proc-arm740.S
proc-arm920.S
proc-arm922.S
proc-arm925.S
proc-arm926.S
proc-arm940.S
proc-arm946.S
proc-arm1020.S
proc-arm1020e.S
proc-arm1022.S
proc-arm1026.S
proc-fa526.S
proc-feroceon.S
proc-macros.S
proc-mohawk.S
proc-sa110.S
proc-sa1100.S
proc-syms.c
proc-v6.S
proc-v7-2level.S
proc-v7-3level.S
proc-v7.S ARM: Update cpu_v7_reset documentation 2017-04-09 07:49:25 -07:00
proc-v7m.S Merge branches 'fixes' and 'misc' into for-next 2017-04-26 10:59:49 +01:00
proc-xsc3.S
proc-xscale.S
pv-fixup-asm.S
tcm.h
tlb-fa.S
tlb-v4.S
tlb-v4wb.S
tlb-v4wbi.S
tlb-v6.S
tlb-v7.S