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Commit 96403e11 authored by Suren Baghdasaryan's avatar Suren Baghdasaryan Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: prevent vm_area_struct::anon_name refcount saturation

A deep process chain with many vmas could grow really high.  With
default sysctl_max_map_count (64k) and default pid_max (32k) the max
number of vmas in the system is 2147450880 and the refcounter has
headroom of 1073774592 before it reaches REFCOUNT_SATURATED
(3221225472).

Therefore it's unlikely that an anonymous name refcounter will overflow
with these defaults.  Currently the max for pid_max is PID_MAX_LIMIT
(4194304) and for sysctl_max_map_count it's INT_MAX (2147483647).  In
this configuration anon_vma_name refcount overflow becomes theoretically
possible (that still require heavy sharing of that anon_vma_name between
processes).

kref refcounting interface used in anon_vma_name structure will detect a
counter overflow when it reaches REFCOUNT_SATURATED value but will only
generate a warning and freeze the ref counter.  This would lead to the
refcounted object never being freed.  A determined attacker could leak
memory like that but it would be rather expensive and inefficient way to
do so.

To ensure anon_vma_name refcount does not overflow, stop anon_vma_name
sharing when the refcount reaches REFCOUNT_MAX (2147483647), which still
leaves INT_MAX/2 (1073741823) values before the counter reaches
REFCOUNT_SATURATED.  This should provide enough headroom for raising the
refcounts temporarily.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220223153613.835563-2-surenb@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarSuren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Hyser <chris.hyser@oracle.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Xiaofeng Cao <caoxiaofeng@yulong.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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