[PATCH] error path in setup_arg_pages() misses vm_unacct_memory()

Pavel Emelianov and Kirill Korotaev observe that fs and arch users of
security_vm_enough_memory tend to forget to vm_unacct_memory when a
failure occurs further down (typically in setup_arg_pages variants).

These are all users of insert_vm_struct, and that reservation will only
be unaccounted on exit if the vma is marked VM_ACCOUNT: which in some
cases it is (hidden inside VM_STACK_FLAGS) and in some cases it isn't.

So x86_64 32-bit and ppc64 vDSO ELFs have been leaking memory into
Committed_AS each time they're run.  But don't add VM_ACCOUNT to them,
it's inappropriate to reserve against the very unlikely case that gdb
be used to COW a vDSO page - we ought to do something about that in
do_wp_page, but there are yet other inconsistencies to be resolved.

The safe and economical way to fix this is to let insert_vm_struct do
the security_vm_enough_memory check when it finds VM_ACCOUNT is set.

And the MIPS irix_brk has been calling security_vm_enough_memory before
calling do_brk which repeats it, doubly accounting and so also leaking.
Remove that, and all the fs and arch calls to security_vm_enough_memory:
give it a less misleading name later on.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/ia32/syscall32.c b/arch/x86_64/ia32/syscall32.c
index adbc5f8089e..3a01329473a 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/ia32/syscall32.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/ia32/syscall32.c
@@ -52,17 +52,13 @@ int syscall32_setup_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int exstack)
 	vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, SLAB_KERNEL);
 	if (!vma)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	if (security_vm_enough_memory(npages)) {
-		kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	memset(vma, 0, sizeof(struct vm_area_struct));
 	/* Could randomize here */
 	vma->vm_start = VSYSCALL32_BASE;
 	vma->vm_end = VSYSCALL32_END;
 	/* MAYWRITE to allow gdb to COW and set breakpoints */
-	vma->vm_flags = VM_READ|VM_EXEC|VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYEXEC|VM_MAYEXEC|VM_MAYWRITE;
+	vma->vm_flags = VM_READ|VM_EXEC|VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYEXEC|VM_MAYWRITE;
 	vma->vm_flags |= mm->def_flags;
 	vma->vm_page_prot = protection_map[vma->vm_flags & 7];
 	vma->vm_ops = &syscall32_vm_ops;