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Subject[PATCH] Fix overflow in vma length when copying mmap on clone
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The vma length in dup_mmap is calculated and stored in a unsigned int,
which is insufficient and hence overflows for very large maps (beyond
16TB). The following program demonstrates this:

\#include <stdio.h>
\#include <unistd.h>
\#include <sys/mman.h>

\#define GIG 1024 * 1024 * 1024L
\#define EXTENT 16393

int main(void)
{
int i, r;
void *m;
char buf[1024];

for (i = 0; i < EXTENT; i++) {
m = mmap(NULL, (size_t) 1 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024L,
PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0);

if (m == (void *)-1)
printf("MMAP Failed: %d\n", m);
else
printf("%d : MMAP returned %p\n", i, m);

r = fork();

if (r == 0) {
printf("%d: successed\n", i);
return 0;
} else if (r < 0)
printf("FORK Failed: %d\n", r);
else if (r > 0)
wait(NULL);
}
return 0;
}

This trivial patch increases the storage size of the result to
unsigned long, which should be sufficient for storing the difference
between addresses.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com>
---
kernel/fork.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index b9372a0..7acaee1 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -355,7 +355,8 @@ static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
}
charge = 0;
if (mpnt->vm_flags & VM_ACCOUNT) {
- unsigned int len = (mpnt->vm_end - mpnt->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ unsigned long len;
+ len = (mpnt->vm_end - mpnt->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
if (security_vm_enough_memory_mm(oldmm, len)) /* sic */
goto fail_nomem;
charge = len;
--
1.7.7.6


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