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/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Gladkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Hyser <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Colin Cross <[email protected]>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <[email protected]>
Cc: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Xiaofeng Cao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_inline.h b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
index dd3accaa4e6d..cf90b1fa2c60 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_inline.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
@@ -161,15 +161,25 @@ static inline void anon_vma_name_put(struct anon_vma_name *anon_name)
 		kref_put(&anon_name->kref, anon_vma_name_free);
 }
 
+static inline
+struct anon_vma_name *anon_vma_name_reuse(struct anon_vma_name *anon_name)
+{
+	/* Prevent anon_name refcount saturation early on */
+	if (kref_read(&anon_name->kref) < REFCOUNT_MAX) {
+		anon_vma_name_get(anon_name);
+		return anon_name;
+
+	}
+	return anon_vma_name_alloc(anon_name->name);
+}
+
 static inline void dup_anon_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *orig_vma,
 				     struct vm_area_struct *new_vma)
 {
 	struct anon_vma_name *anon_name = anon_vma_name(orig_vma);
 
-	if (anon_name) {
-		anon_vma_name_get(anon_name);
-		new_vma->anon_name = anon_name;
-	}
+	if (anon_name)
+		new_vma->anon_name = anon_vma_name_reuse(anon_name);
 }
 
 static inline void free_anon_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 081b1cded21e..1f2693dccf7b 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -113,8 +113,7 @@ static int replace_anon_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (anon_vma_name_eq(orig_name, anon_name))
 		return 0;
 
-	anon_vma_name_get(anon_name);
-	vma->anon_name = anon_name;
+	vma->anon_name = anon_vma_name_reuse(anon_name);
 	anon_vma_name_put(orig_name);
 
 	return 0;