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

commit 8138a67a5557ffea3a21dfd6f037842d4e748513 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 c9b1d0981fcc
("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: Roman 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[lizf: Backported to 3.4:
 - adjust context
 - there's no variable reserve]
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>

diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index d3afb4765c8a4e2842ae8f418f87c7aa12ad8b6e..3f282f9cc13ffcd8fc83f0252c322c586da7387b 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -1916,7 +1916,7 @@ 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);