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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-27 08:36:04 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-10-22 09:02:25 +0100
commit47bed364d1eed775c358204b9eb7affb0ce64033 (patch)
treedd53f5d49316e0b2e5541ecaecd59c2367307cab /Makefile
parent9a63af54974c73f5723bf9a5c03d195f4d473c20 (diff)
mm: do not grow the stack vma just because of an overrun on preceding vma
commit 09884964335e85e897876d17783c2ad33cf8a2e0 upstream. The stack vma is designed to grow automatically (marked with VM_GROWSUP or VM_GROWSDOWN depending on architecture) when an access is made beyond the existing boundary. However, particularly if you have not limited your stack at all ("ulimit -s unlimited"), this can cause the stack to grow even if the access was really just one past *another* segment. And that's wrong, especially since we first grow the segment, but then immediately later enforce the stack guard page on the last page of the segment. So _despite_ first growing the stack segment as a result of the access, the kernel will then make the access cause a SIGSEGV anyway! So do the same logic as the guard page check does, and consider an access to within one page of the next segment to be a bad access, rather than growing the stack to abut the next segment. Reported-and-tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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