[PATCH 3.16 2/7] mm: fix new crash in unmapped_area_topdown()

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Tue Jun 27 2017 - 07:13:02 EST


3.16.45-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit f4cb767d76cf7ee72f97dd76f6cfa6c76a5edc89 upstream.

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().

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>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mmap.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1732,7 +1732,8 @@ check_current:
/* 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 */
@@ -1835,7 +1836,8 @@ check_current:
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 */