Re: [PATCH] exec: separate MM_ANONPAGES and RLIMIT_STACK accounting

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Mon Nov 26 2018 - 12:34:09 EST


Hi Oleg,

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 01:23:07PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
>
> On 11/23, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 05:09:10PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > get_arg_page() checks bprm->rlim_stack.rlim_cur and re-calculates the
> > > "extra" size for argv/envp pointers every time, this is a bit ugly and
> > > even not strictly correct: acct_arg_size() must not account this size.
> > >
> > > Remove all the rlimit code in get_arg_page(). Instead, add bprm->argmin
> > > calculated once at the start of __do_execve_file() and change copy_strings
> > > to check bprm->p >= bprm->argmin.
> > >
> > > The patch adds the new helper, prepare_arg_pages() which initializes
> > > bprm->argc/envc and bprm->argmin.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch results in various qemu boot failures in -next. Bisect logs
> > are attached. It looks like all nommu boots are failing.
> ^^^^^
>
> Ah, thanks.
>
> Yes, I forgot about the !CONFIG_MMU version of get_arg_page() which doesn't
> check RLIMIT_STACK at all.
>
> I'll send the trivial fix. Meanwile, could you test the patch below? to ensure
> this is the only problem.
>

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

with arm:mps2-an385, xtensa:kc705-nommu, and m68k:mcf5208evb.

Thanks,
Guenter

> Oleg.
>
> --- a/fs/exec.c
> +++ b/fs/exec.c
> @@ -526,8 +526,10 @@ static int copy_strings(int argc, struct user_arg_ptr argv,
> pos = bprm->p;
> str += len;
> bprm->p -= len;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
> if (bprm->p < bprm->argmin)
> goto out;
> +#endif
>
> while (len > 0) {
> int offset, bytes_to_copy;
>