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<title>parisc: Fix alignment of pa_tlb_lock in assembly on 32-bit SMP kernel</title>
<updated>2018-01-10T08:27:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-02T19:36:44+00:00</published>
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commit 88776c0e70be0290f8357019d844aae15edaa967 upstream.

Qemu for PARISC reported on a 32bit SMP parisc kernel strange failures
about "Not-handled unaligned insn 0x0e8011d6 and 0x0c2011c9."

Those opcodes evaluate to the ldcw() assembly instruction which requires
(on 32bit) an alignment of 16 bytes to ensure atomicity.

As it turns out, qemu is correct and in our assembly code in entry.S and
pacache.S we don't pay attention to the required alignment.

This patch fixes the problem by aligning the lock offset in assembly
code in the same manner as we do in our C-code.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 88776c0e70be0290f8357019d844aae15edaa967 upstream.

Qemu for PARISC reported on a 32bit SMP parisc kernel strange failures
about "Not-handled unaligned insn 0x0e8011d6 and 0x0c2011c9."

Those opcodes evaluate to the ldcw() assembly instruction which requires
(on 32bit) an alignment of 16 bytes to ensure atomicity.

As it turns out, qemu is correct and in our assembly code in entry.S and
pacache.S we don't pay attention to the required alignment.

This patch fixes the problem by aligning the lock offset in assembly
code in the same manner as we do in our C-code.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix validity check of pointer size argument in new CAS implementation</title>
<updated>2017-11-30T08:37:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-11T22:11:16+00:00</published>
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commit 05f016d2ca7a4fab99d5d5472168506ddf95e74f upstream.

As noted by Christoph Biedl, passing a pointer size of 4 in the new CAS
implementation causes a kernel crash.  The attached patch corrects the
off by one error in the argument validity check.

In reviewing the code, I noticed that we only perform word operations
with the pointer size argument.  The subi instruction intentionally uses
a word condition on 64-bit kernels.  Nullification was used instead of a
cmpib instruction as the branch should never be taken.  The shlw
pseudo-operation generates a depw,z instruction and it clears the target
before doing a shift left word deposit.  Thus, we don't need to clip the
upper 32 bits of this argument on 64-bit kernels.

Tested with a gcc testsuite run with a 64-bit kernel.  The gcc atomic
code in libgcc is the only direct user of the new CAS implementation
that I am aware of.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 05f016d2ca7a4fab99d5d5472168506ddf95e74f upstream.

As noted by Christoph Biedl, passing a pointer size of 4 in the new CAS
implementation causes a kernel crash.  The attached patch corrects the
off by one error in the argument validity check.

In reviewing the code, I noticed that we only perform word operations
with the pointer size argument.  The subi instruction intentionally uses
a word condition on 64-bit kernels.  Nullification was used instead of a
cmpib instruction as the branch should never be taken.  The shlw
pseudo-operation generates a depw,z instruction and it clears the target
before doing a shift left word deposit.  Thus, we don't need to clip the
upper 32 bits of this argument on 64-bit kernels.

Tested with a gcc testsuite run with a 64-bit kernel.  The gcc atomic
code in libgcc is the only direct user of the new CAS implementation
that I am aware of.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix double-word compare and exchange in LWS code on 32-bit kernels</title>
<updated>2017-10-27T08:23:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-30T21:24:23+00:00</published>
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commit 374b3bf8e8b519f61eb9775888074c6e46b3bf0c upstream.

As discussed on the debian-hppa list, double-wordcompare and exchange
operations fail on 32-bit kernels.  Looking at the code, I realized that
the ",ma" completer does the wrong thing in the  "ldw,ma  4(%r26), %r29"
instruction.  This increments %r26 and causes the following store to
write to the wrong location.

Note by Helge Deller:
The patch applies cleanly to stable kernel series if this upstream
commit is merged in advance:
f4125cfdb300 ("parisc: Avoid trashing sr2 and sr3 in LWS code").

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Tested-by: Christoph Biedl &lt;debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de&gt;
Fixes: 89206491201c ("parisc: Implement new LWS CAS supporting 64 bit operations.")
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 374b3bf8e8b519f61eb9775888074c6e46b3bf0c upstream.

As discussed on the debian-hppa list, double-wordcompare and exchange
operations fail on 32-bit kernels.  Looking at the code, I realized that
the ",ma" completer does the wrong thing in the  "ldw,ma  4(%r26), %r29"
instruction.  This increments %r26 and causes the following store to
write to the wrong location.

Note by Helge Deller:
The patch applies cleanly to stable kernel series if this upstream
commit is merged in advance:
f4125cfdb300 ("parisc: Avoid trashing sr2 and sr3 in LWS code").

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Tested-by: Christoph Biedl &lt;debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de&gt;
Fixes: 89206491201c ("parisc: Implement new LWS CAS supporting 64 bit operations.")
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>parisc: Avoid trashing sr2 and sr3 in LWS code</title>
<updated>2017-10-27T08:23:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-28T20:13:42+00:00</published>
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commit f4125cfdb3008363137f744c101e5d76ead760ba upstream.

There is no need to trash sr2 and sr3 in the Light-weight syscall (LWS).  sr2
already points to kernel space (it's zero in userspace, otherwise syscalls
wouldn't work), and since the LWS code is executed in userspace, we can simply
ignore to preload sr3.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f4125cfdb3008363137f744c101e5d76ead760ba upstream.

There is no need to trash sr2 and sr3 in the Light-weight syscall (LWS).  sr2
already points to kernel space (it's zero in userspace, otherwise syscalls
wouldn't work), and since the LWS code is executed in userspace, we can simply
ignore to preload sr3.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: perf: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference</title>
<updated>2017-10-08T08:14:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arvind Yadav</name>
<email>arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-14T09:54:51+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 74e3f6e63da6c8e8246fba1689e040bc926b4a1a ]

Fix potential NULL pointer dereference and clean up
coding style errors (code indent, trailing whitespaces).

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav &lt;arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 74e3f6e63da6c8e8246fba1689e040bc926b4a1a ]

Fix potential NULL pointer dereference and clean up
coding style errors (code indent, trailing whitespaces).

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav &lt;arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc/mm: Ensure IRQs are off in switch_mm()</title>
<updated>2017-07-21T05:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-29T15:14:16+00:00</published>
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commit 649aa24254e85bf6bd7807dd372d083707852b1f upstream.

This is because of commit f98db6013c55 ("sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off()
and use it in the scheduler") in which switch_mm_irqs_off() is called by the
scheduler, vs switch_mm() which is used by use_mm().

This patch lets the parisc code mirror the x86 and powerpc code, ie. it
disables interrupts in switch_mm(), and optimises the scheduler case by
defining switch_mm_irqs_off().

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 649aa24254e85bf6bd7807dd372d083707852b1f upstream.

This is because of commit f98db6013c55 ("sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off()
and use it in the scheduler") in which switch_mm_irqs_off() is called by the
scheduler, vs switch_mm() which is used by use_mm().

This patch lets the parisc code mirror the x86 and powerpc code, ie. it
disables interrupts in switch_mm(), and optimises the scheduler case by
defining switch_mm_irqs_off().

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: DMA API: return error instead of BUG_ON for dma ops on non dma devs</title>
<updated>2017-07-21T05:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Bogendoerfer</name>
<email>tsbogend@alpha.franken.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-03T08:38:05+00:00</published>
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commit 33f9e02495d15a061f0c94ef46f5103a2d0c20f3 upstream.

Enabling parport pc driver on a B2600 (and probably other 64bit PARISC
systems) produced following BUG:

CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.12.0-rc5-30198-g1132d5e #156
task: 000000009e050000 task.stack: 000000009e04c000

     YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI
PSW: 00001000000001101111111100001111 Not tainted
r00-03  000000ff0806ff0f 000000009e04c990 0000000040871b78 000000009e04cac0
r04-07  0000000040c14de0 ffffffffffffffff 000000009e07f098 000000009d82d200
r08-11  000000009d82d210 0000000000000378 0000000000000000 0000000040c345e0
r12-15  0000000000000005 0000000040c345e0 0000000000000000 0000000040c9d5e0
r16-19  0000000040c345e0 00000000f00001c4 00000000f00001bc 0000000000000061
r20-23  000000009e04ce28 0000000000000010 0000000000000010 0000000040b89e40
r24-27  0000000000000003 0000000000ffffff 000000009d82d210 0000000040c14de0
r28-31  0000000000000000 000000009e04ca90 000000009e04cb40 0000000000000000
sr00-03  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
sr04-07  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000

IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 00000000404aece0 00000000404aece4
 IIR: 03ffe01f    ISR: 0000000010340000  IOR: 000001781304cac8
 CPU:        0   CR30: 000000009e04c000 CR31: 00000000e2976de2
 ORIG_R28: 0000000000000200
 IAOQ[0]: sba_dma_supported+0x80/0xd0
 IAOQ[1]: sba_dma_supported+0x84/0xd0
 RP(r2): parport_pc_probe_port+0x178/0x1200

Cause is a call to dma_coerce_mask_and_coherenet in parport_pc_probe_port,
which PARISC DMA API doesn't handle very nicely. This commit gives back
DMA_ERROR_CODE for DMA API calls, if device isn't capable of DMA
transaction.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 33f9e02495d15a061f0c94ef46f5103a2d0c20f3 upstream.

Enabling parport pc driver on a B2600 (and probably other 64bit PARISC
systems) produced following BUG:

CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.12.0-rc5-30198-g1132d5e #156
task: 000000009e050000 task.stack: 000000009e04c000

     YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI
PSW: 00001000000001101111111100001111 Not tainted
r00-03  000000ff0806ff0f 000000009e04c990 0000000040871b78 000000009e04cac0
r04-07  0000000040c14de0 ffffffffffffffff 000000009e07f098 000000009d82d200
r08-11  000000009d82d210 0000000000000378 0000000000000000 0000000040c345e0
r12-15  0000000000000005 0000000040c345e0 0000000000000000 0000000040c9d5e0
r16-19  0000000040c345e0 00000000f00001c4 00000000f00001bc 0000000000000061
r20-23  000000009e04ce28 0000000000000010 0000000000000010 0000000040b89e40
r24-27  0000000000000003 0000000000ffffff 000000009d82d210 0000000040c14de0
r28-31  0000000000000000 000000009e04ca90 000000009e04cb40 0000000000000000
sr00-03  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
sr04-07  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000

IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 00000000404aece0 00000000404aece4
 IIR: 03ffe01f    ISR: 0000000010340000  IOR: 000001781304cac8
 CPU:        0   CR30: 000000009e04c000 CR31: 00000000e2976de2
 ORIG_R28: 0000000000000200
 IAOQ[0]: sba_dma_supported+0x80/0xd0
 IAOQ[1]: sba_dma_supported+0x84/0xd0
 RP(r2): parport_pc_probe_port+0x178/0x1200

Cause is a call to dma_coerce_mask_and_coherenet in parport_pc_probe_port,
which PARISC DMA API doesn't handle very nicely. This commit gives back
DMA_ERROR_CODE for DMA API calls, if device isn't capable of DMA
transaction.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>parisc: use compat_sys_keyctl()</title>
<updated>2017-07-21T05:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-13T06:18:30+00:00</published>
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commit b0f94efd5aa8daa8a07d7601714c2573266cd4c9 upstream.

Architectures with a compat syscall table must put compat_sys_keyctl()
in it, not sys_keyctl().  The parisc architecture was not doing this;
fix it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b0f94efd5aa8daa8a07d7601714c2573266cd4c9 upstream.

Architectures with a compat syscall table must put compat_sys_keyctl()
in it, not sys_keyctl().  The parisc architecture was not doing this;
fix it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Report SIGSEGV instead of SIGBUS when running out of stack</title>
<updated>2017-07-21T05:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-02T20:00:41+00:00</published>
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commit 247462316f85a9e0479445c1a4223950b68ffac1 upstream.

When a process runs out of stack the parisc kernel wrongly faults with SIGBUS
instead of the expected SIGSEGV signal.

This example shows how the kernel faults:
do_page_fault() command='a.out' type=15 address=0xfaac2000 in libc-2.24.so[f8308000+16c000]
trap #15: Data TLB miss fault, vm_start = 0xfa2c2000, vm_end = 0xfaac2000

The vma-&gt;vm_end value is the first address which does not belong to the vma, so
adjust the check to include vma-&gt;vm_end to the range for which to send the
SIGSEGV signal.

This patch unbreaks building the debian libsigsegv package.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 247462316f85a9e0479445c1a4223950b68ffac1 upstream.

When a process runs out of stack the parisc kernel wrongly faults with SIGBUS
instead of the expected SIGSEGV signal.

This example shows how the kernel faults:
do_page_fault() command='a.out' type=15 address=0xfaac2000 in libc-2.24.so[f8308000+16c000]
trap #15: Data TLB miss fault, vm_start = 0xfa2c2000, vm_end = 0xfaac2000

The vma-&gt;vm_end value is the first address which does not belong to the vma, so
adjust the check to include vma-&gt;vm_end to the range for which to send the
SIGSEGV signal.

This patch unbreaks building the debian libsigsegv package.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas</title>
<updated>2017-06-26T05:13:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-19T11:03:24+00:00</published>
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commit 1be7107fbe18eed3e319a6c3e83c78254b693acb upstream.

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 &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[wt: backport to 4.11: adjust context]
[wt: backport to 4.9: adjust context ; kernel doc was not in admin-guide]
[wt: backport to 4.4: adjust context ; drop ppc hugetlb_radix changes]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
[gkh: minor build fixes for 4.4]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 1be7107fbe18eed3e319a6c3e83c78254b693acb upstream.

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 &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[wt: backport to 4.11: adjust context]
[wt: backport to 4.9: adjust context ; kernel doc was not in admin-guide]
[wt: backport to 4.4: adjust context ; drop ppc hugetlb_radix changes]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
[gkh: minor build fixes for 4.4]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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