FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm: prevent vm_area_struct::anon_name refcount saturation" failed to apply to 5.16-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.16-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 96403e11283def1d1c465c8279514c9a504d8630 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2022 20:28:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] 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.

index dd3accaa4e6d..cf90b1fa2c60 100644
@@ -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)

index 081b1cded21e..1f2693dccf7b 100644
@@ -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;