Commit a73ab244 authored by Davidlohr Bueso's avatar Davidlohr Bueso Committed by Linus Torvalds

Revert "ipc/shm: Fix shmat mmap nil-page protection"

Patch series "ipc/shm: shmat() fixes around nil-page".

These patches fix two issues reported[1] a while back by Joe and Andrea
around how shmat(2) behaves with nil-page.

The first reverts a commit that it was incorrectly thought that mapping
nil-page (address=0) was a no no with MAP_FIXED.  This is not the case,
with the exception of SHM_REMAP; which is address in the second patch.

I chose two patches because it is easier to backport and it explicitly
reverts bogus behaviour.  Both patches ought to be in -stable and ltp
testcases need updated (the added testcase around the cve can be
modified to just test for SHM_RND|SHM_REMAP).

[1] lkml.kernel.org/r/20180430172152.nfa564pvgpk3ut7p@linux-n805

This patch (of 2):

Commit 95e91b83 ("ipc/shm: Fix shmat mmap nil-page protection")
worked on the idea that we should not be mapping as root addr=0 and
MAP_FIXED.  However, it was reported that this scenario is in fact
valid, thus making the patch both bogus and breaks userspace as well.

For example X11's libint10.so relies on shmat(1, SHM_RND) for lowmem
initialization[1].

[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/int10/linux.c#n347
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180503203243.15045-2-dave@stgolabs.net
Fixes: 95e91b83 ("ipc/shm: Fix shmat mmap nil-page protection")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Reported-by: default avatarJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 7a4deea1
......@@ -1363,13 +1363,8 @@ long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int shmflg,
if (addr) {
if (addr & (shmlba - 1)) {
/*
* Round down to the nearest multiple of shmlba.
* For sane do_mmap_pgoff() parameters, avoid
* round downs that trigger nil-page and MAP_FIXED.
*/
if ((shmflg & SHM_RND) && addr >= shmlba)
addr &= ~(shmlba - 1);
if (shmflg & SHM_RND)
addr &= ~(shmlba - 1); /* round down */
else
#ifndef __ARCH_FORCE_SHMLBA
if (addr & ~PAGE_MASK)
......
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