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[PATCH 1/3] setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size


From: Roland McGrath <roland () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 19:35:49 -0700 (PDT)

The CONFIG_STACK_GROWSDOWN variant of setup_arg_pages() does not
check the size of the argument/environment area on the stack.
When it is unworkably large, shift_arg_pages() hits its BUG_ON.
This is exploitable with a very large RLIMIT_STACK limit, to
create a crash pretty easily.

Check that the initial stack is not too large to make it possible
to map in any executable.  We're not checking that the actual
executable (or intepreter, for binfmt_elf) will fit.  So those
mappings might clobber part of the initial stack mapping.  But
that is just userland lossage that userland made happen, not a
kernel problem.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland () redhat com>
---
 fs/exec.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 2d94552..1b63237 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -594,6 +594,11 @@ int setup_arg_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
 #else
        stack_top = arch_align_stack(stack_top);
        stack_top = PAGE_ALIGN(stack_top);
+
+       if (unlikely(stack_top < mmap_min_addr) ||
+           unlikely(vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start >= stack_top - mmap_min_addr))
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
        stack_shift = vma->vm_end - stack_top;
 
        bprm->p -= stack_shift;


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