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From: "Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga" <azpijr@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	"Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga" <azpijr@gmail.com>,
	Park Tae-sun <ts930@dgu.ac.kr>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] mm/mlock: reject ranges that cannot be represented
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 2026 08:46:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261005065244.6935-3-azpijr@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261005065244.6935-1-azpijr@gmail.com>

A length within a page of ULONG_MAX wraps when mlock() and munlock()
round the range to pages. At an aligned address the length becomes 0 and
the call is a silent success; at an unaligned one it becomes a single
page, which is then locked or unlocked. An overflowing start + len is
only caught in apply_vma_lock_flags(), after the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK check, so
mlock() returns -ENOMEM without CAP_IPC_LOCK and -EINVAL with it.

Return -EINVAL, as man 2 mlock documents, when start + len overflows or
the end overflows when rounded up to a page. Doing this before
can_do_mlock() also avoids making the result depend on
RLIMIT_MEMLOCK/CAP_IPC_LOCK. Requests that get a silent success today
now fail.

Reported-by: Park Tae-sun <ts930@dgu.ac.kr>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/179066531783.50175.13377521828379196177@dgu.ac.kr/
Signed-off-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@gmail.com>
---
 mm/mlock.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index cc28e5d7413a..a9e2b90c058f 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -608,6 +608,7 @@ static __must_check int do_mlock(unsigned long start, size_t len,
 {
 	unsigned long locked;
 	unsigned long lock_limit;
+	unsigned long end;
 	int error = -ENOMEM;

 	start = untagged_addr(start);
@@ -615,12 +616,19 @@ static __must_check int do_mlock(unsigned long start, size_t len,
 	if (!len)
 		return 0;

+	/* Reject a wrapping range before can_do_mlock() and the rlimit check. */
+	end = start + len;
+	if (end < start)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	end = PAGE_ALIGN(end);
+	if (!end)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	start &= PAGE_MASK;
+	len = end - start;
+
 	if (!can_do_mlock())
 		return -EPERM;

-	len = PAGE_ALIGN(len + (offset_in_page(start)));
-	start &= PAGE_MASK;
-
 	lock_limit = rlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK);
 	lock_limit >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
 	locked = len >> PAGE_SHIFT;
@@ -676,6 +684,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mlock2, unsigned long, start, size_t, len, int, flags)

 SYSCALL_DEFINE2(munlock, unsigned long, start, size_t, len)
 {
+	unsigned long end;
 	vma_flags_t flags = EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS;
 	int ret;

@@ -684,8 +693,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(munlock, unsigned long, start, size_t, len)
 	if (!len)
 		return 0;

-	len = PAGE_ALIGN(len + (offset_in_page(start)));
+	end = start + len;
+	if (end < start)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	end = PAGE_ALIGN(end);
+	if (!end)
+		return -EINVAL;
 	start &= PAGE_MASK;
+	len = end - start;

 	if (mmap_write_lock_killable(current->mm))
 		return -EINTR;
--
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-05  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-05  6:46 [PATCH 0/3] mm/mlock: make zero length requests a no-op and reject wrapping ranges Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-10-05  6:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/mlock: make a zero length request a no-op whatever the alignment Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-10-05  6:46 ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga [this message]
2026-10-05  6:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] selftests/mm: test mlock() and munlock() range normalisation Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga

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