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mm/mmap.c: fix arithmetic overflow in __vm_enough_memory()
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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 c9b1d09
("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.

[[email protected]: use min_t]
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Shewmaker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Roman Gushchin authored and torvalds committed Feb 12, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vm_memory_committed);
*/
int __vm_enough_memory(struct mm_struct *mm, long pages, int cap_sys_admin)
{
unsigned long free, allowed, reserve;
long free, allowed, reserve;

VM_WARN_ONCE(percpu_counter_read(&vm_committed_as) <
-(s64)vm_committed_as_batch * num_online_cpus(),
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*/
if (mm) {
reserve = sysctl_user_reserve_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
allowed -= min(mm->total_vm / 32, reserve);
allowed -= min_t(long, mm->total_vm / 32, reserve);
}

if (percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as) < allowed)
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