From d045c77c1a69703143a36169c224429c48b9eecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Helge Deller Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 22:01:27 +0200 Subject: parisc,metag: Fix crashes due to stack randomization on stack-grows-upwards architectures On architectures where the stack grows upwards (CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP=y, currently parisc and metag only) stack randomization sometimes leads to crashes when the stack ulimit is set to lower values than STACK_RND_MASK (which is 8 MB by default if not defined in arch-specific headers). The problem is, that when the stack vm_area_struct is set up in fs/exec.c, the additional space needed for the stack randomization (as defined by the value of STACK_RND_MASK) was not taken into account yet and as such, when the stack randomization code added a random offset to the stack start, the stack effectively got smaller than what the user defined via rlimit_max(RLIMIT_STACK) which then sometimes leads to out-of-stack situations and crashes. This patch fixes it by adding the maximum possible amount of memory (based on STACK_RND_MASK) which theoretically could be added by the stack randomization code to the initial stack size. That way, the user-defined stack size is always guaranteed to be at minimum what is defined via rlimit_max(RLIMIT_STACK). This bug is currently not visible on the metag architecture, because on metag STACK_RND_MASK is defined to 0 which effectively disables stack randomization. The changes to fs/exec.c are inside an "#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP" section, so it does not affect other platformws beside those where the stack grows upwards (parisc and metag). Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Cc: James Hogan Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16+ --- arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/parisc/kernel') diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c index e1ffea2f9a0b..5aba01ac457f 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ static unsigned long mmap_upper_limit(void) if (stack_base > STACK_SIZE_MAX) stack_base = STACK_SIZE_MAX; + /* Add space for stack randomization. */ + stack_base += (STACK_RND_MASK << PAGE_SHIFT); + return PAGE_ALIGN(STACK_TOP - stack_base); } -- cgit v1.2.3