Commit 0fbb5b27 authored by Roman Gushchin's avatar Roman Gushchin Committed by Ben Hutchings

mm/nommu.c: fix arithmetic overflow in __vm_enough_memory()

commit 8138a67a upstream.

I noticed that "allowed" can easily overflow by falling below 0, because
(total_vm / 32) can be larger than "allowed".  The problem occurs in
OVERCOMMIT_NONE mode.

In this case, a huge allocation can success and overcommit the system
(despite OVERCOMMIT_NONE mode).  All subsequent allocations will fall
(system-wide), so system become unusable.

The problem was masked out by commit c9b1d098
("mm: limit growth of 3% hardcoded other user reserve"),
but it's easy to reproduce it on older kernels:
1) set overcommit_memory sysctl to 2
2) mmap() large file multiple times (with VM_SHARED flag)
3) try to malloc() large amount of memory

It also can be reproduced on newer kernels, but miss-configured
sysctl_user_reserve_kbytes is required.

Fix this issue by switching to signed arithmetic here.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: there is no 'reserved' variable]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent c529da02
......@@ -1885,7 +1885,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unmap_mapping_range);
*/
int __vm_enough_memory(struct mm_struct *mm, long pages, int cap_sys_admin)
{
unsigned long free, allowed;
long free, allowed;
vm_acct_memory(pages);
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