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mm: do not BUG_ON missing brk mapping, because userspace can unmap it
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The following program will trigger the BUG_ON that this patch removes,
because the user can munmap() mm->brk:

  #include <sys/syscall.h>
  #include <sys/mman.h>
  #include <assert.h>
  #include <unistd.h>

  static void *brk_now(void)
  {
    return (void *)syscall(SYS_brk, 0);
  }

  static void brk_set(void *b)
  {
    assert(syscall(SYS_brk, b) != -1);
  }

  int main(int argc, char *argv[])
  {
    void *b = brk_now();
    brk_set(b + 4096);
    assert(munmap(b - 4096, 4096 * 2) == 0);
    brk_set(b);
    return 0;
  }

Compile that with musl, since glibc actually uses brk(), and then
execute it, and it'll hit this splat:

  kernel BUG at mm/mmap.c:229!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  CPU: 12 PID: 1379 Comm: a.out Tainted: G S   U             6.1.0-rc7+ torvalds#419
  RIP: 0010:__do_sys_brk+0x2fc/0x340
  Code: 00 00 4c 89 ef e8 04 d3 fe ff eb 9a be 01 00 00 00 4c 89 ff e8 35 e0 fe ff e9 6e ff ff ff 4d 89 a7 20>
  RSP: 0018:ffff888140bc7eb0 EFLAGS: 00010246
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000007e7000 RCX: ffff8881020fe000
  RDX: ffff8881020fe001 RSI: ffff8881955c9b00 RDI: ffff8881955c9b08
  RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff8881955c9b00 R09: 00007ffc77844000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 00000000007e8000
  R13: 00000000007e8000 R14: 00000000007e7000 R15: ffff8881020fe000
  FS:  0000000000604298(0000) GS:ffff88901f700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000603fe0 CR3: 000000015ba9a005 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
  PKRU: 55555554
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x50
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
  RIP: 0033:0x400678
  Code: 10 4c 8d 41 08 4c 89 44 24 10 4c 8b 01 8b 4c 24 08 83 f9 2f 77 0a 4c 8d 4c 24 20 4c 01 c9 eb 05 48 8b>
  RSP: 002b:00007ffc77863890 EFLAGS: 00000212 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000000c
  RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000040031b RCX: 0000000000400678
  RDX: 00000000004006a1 RSI: 00000000007e6000 RDI: 00000000007e7000
  RBP: 00007ffc77863900 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000007e6000
  R10: 00007ffc77863930 R11: 0000000000000212 R12: 00007ffc77863978
  R13: 00007ffc77863988 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
   </TASK>

Instead, just return the old brk value if the original mapping has been
removed.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix changelog, per Liam]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221202162724.2009-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
Fixes: 2e7ce7d ("mm/mmap: change do_brk_flags() to expand existing VMA and add do_brk_munmap()")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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zx2c4 authored and akpm00 committed Dec 10, 2022
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions mm/mmap.c
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Expand Up @@ -226,8 +226,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(brk, unsigned long, brk)
/* Search one past newbrk */
mas_set(&mas, newbrk);
brkvma = mas_find(&mas, oldbrk);
BUG_ON(brkvma == NULL);
if (brkvma->vm_start >= oldbrk)
if (!brkvma || brkvma->vm_start >= oldbrk)
goto out; /* mapping intersects with an existing non-brk vma. */
/*
* mm->brk must be protected by write mmap_lock.
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