Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] binfmt_elf: Support segments with 0 filesz and misaligned starts

[Sebastian Ott]

Hello Kees,

On Thu, 28 Sep 2023, Kees Cook wrote:
> This is the continuation of the work Eric started for handling
> "p_memsz > p_filesz" in arbitrary segments (rather than just the last,
> BSS, segment). I've added the suggested changes:
>
> - drop unused "elf_bss" variable
> - refactor load_elf_interp() to use elf_load()
> - refactor load_elf_library() to use elf_load()
> - report padzero() errors when PROT_WRITE is present
> - drop vm_brk()

While I was debugging the initial issue I stumbled over the following
- care to take it as part of this series?

----->8
[PATCH] mm: vm_brk_flags don't bail out while holding lock

Calling vm_brk_flags() with flags set other than VM_EXEC
will exit the function without releasing the mmap_write_lock.

Just do the sanity check before the lock is acquired. This
doesn't fix an actual issue since no caller sets a flag other
than VM_EXEC.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/mmap.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index b56a7f0c9f85..7ed286662839 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -3143,13 +3143,13 @@ int vm_brk_flags(unsigned long addr, unsigned long request, unsigned long flags)
 	if (!len)
 		return 0;

-	if (mmap_write_lock_killable(mm))
-		return -EINTR;
-
 	/* Until we need other flags, refuse anything except VM_EXEC. */
 	if ((flags & (~VM_EXEC)) != 0)
 		return -EINVAL;

+	if (mmap_write_lock_killable(mm))
+		return -EINTR;
+
 	ret = check_brk_limits(addr, len);
 	if (ret)
 		goto limits_failed;
--
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