CVE-2012-2390 (published 2012-06-13T10:24Z)

Memory leak in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or system crash) via invalid MAP_HUGETLB mmap operations.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-399
cwe_name: Resource Management Errors
description: Weaknesses in this category are related to improper management of system resources.

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Dave Hansen
author_date: 2012-05-29 15:06:46-07:00
msg: hugetlb: fix resv_map leak in error path

When called for anonymous (non-shared) mappings, hugetlb_reserve_pages()
does a resv_map_alloc().  It depends on code in hugetlbfs's
vm_ops->close() to release that allocation.

However, in the mmap() failure path, we do a plain unmap_region() without
the remove_vma() which actually calls vm_ops->close().

This is a decent fix.  This leak could get reintroduced if new code (say,
after hugetlb_reserve_pages() in hugetlbfs_file_mmap()) decides to return
an error.  But, I think it would have to unroll the reservation anyway.

Christoph's test case:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=133728900729735

This patch applies to 3.4 and later.  A version for earlier kernels is at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/22/418.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Tested-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[2.6.32+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: hugetlb.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -2157,6 +2157,15 @@ static void hugetlb_vm_op_open(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		kref_get(&reservations->refs);
 }
 
+static void resv_map_put(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	struct resv_map *reservations = vma_resv_map(vma);
+
+	if (!reservations)
+		return;
+	kref_put(&reservations->refs, resv_map_release);
+}
+
 static void hugetlb_vm_op_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
 	struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
@@ -2173,7 +2182,7 @@ static void hugetlb_vm_op_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		reserve = (end - start) -
 			region_count(&reservations->regions, start, end);
 
-		kref_put(&reservations->refs, resv_map_release);
+		resv_map_put(vma);
 
 		if (reserve) {
 			hugetlb_acct_memory(h, -reserve);
@@ -2991,12 +3000,16 @@ int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode,
 		set_vma_resv_flags(vma, HPAGE_RESV_OWNER);
 	}
 
-	if (chg < 0)
-		return chg;
+	if (chg < 0) {
+		ret = chg;
+		goto out_err;
+	}
 
 	/* There must be enough pages in the subpool for the mapping */
-	if (hugepage_subpool_get_pages(spool, chg))
-		return -ENOSPC;
+	if (hugepage_subpool_get_pages(spool, chg)) {
+		ret = -ENOSPC;
+		goto out_err;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Check enough hugepages are available for the reservation.
@@ -3005,7 +3018,7 @@ int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode,
 	ret = hugetlb_acct_memory(h, chg);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, chg);
-		return ret;
+		goto out_err;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -3022,6 +3035,9 @@ int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode,
 	if (!vma || vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE)
 		region_add(&inode->i_mapping->private_list, from, to);
 	return 0;
+out_err:
+	resv_map_put(vma);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 void hugetlb_unreserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long offset, long freed)

programming_language: C