From 2fd4ef85e0db9ed75c98e13953257a967ea55e03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 06:13:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] error path in setup_arg_pages() misses vm_unacct_memory() Pavel Emelianov and Kirill Korotaev observe that fs and arch users of security_vm_enough_memory tend to forget to vm_unacct_memory when a failure occurs further down (typically in setup_arg_pages variants). These are all users of insert_vm_struct, and that reservation will only be unaccounted on exit if the vma is marked VM_ACCOUNT: which in some cases it is (hidden inside VM_STACK_FLAGS) and in some cases it isn't. So x86_64 32-bit and ppc64 vDSO ELFs have been leaking memory into Committed_AS each time they're run. But don't add VM_ACCOUNT to them, it's inappropriate to reserve against the very unlikely case that gdb be used to COW a vDSO page - we ought to do something about that in do_wp_page, but there are yet other inconsistencies to be resolved. The safe and economical way to fix this is to let insert_vm_struct do the security_vm_enough_memory check when it finds VM_ACCOUNT is set. And the MIPS irix_brk has been calling security_vm_enough_memory before calling do_brk which repeats it, doubly accounting and so also leaking. Remove that, and all the fs and arch calls to security_vm_enough_memory: give it a less misleading name later on. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/exec.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 6fae59a22b43..a04a575ad433 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -421,11 +421,6 @@ int setup_arg_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, if (!mpnt) return -ENOMEM; - if (security_vm_enough_memory(arg_size >> PAGE_SHIFT)) { - kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, mpnt); - return -ENOMEM; - } - memset(mpnt, 0, sizeof(*mpnt)); down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); -- cgit v1.2.2