# Re: \[PATCH v4\] mm/vmalloc: randomize vmalloc() allocations

- From: Topi Miettinen \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-03-15 16:24:35 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2021/03/6302016
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-hardening/2021/03/6293771/t.md

```text
On 15.3.2021 17.35, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
>> On 14.3.2021 19.23, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
>>> Also, using vmaloc test driver i can trigger a kernel BUG:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>> [   24.627577] kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:1272!
>>
>> It seems that most tests indeed fail. Perhaps the vmalloc subsystem isn't
>> very robust in face of fragmented virtual memory. What could be done to fix
>> that?
>>
> Your patch is broken in context of checking "vend" when you try to
> allocate next time after first attempt. Passed "vend" is different
> there comparing what is checked later to figure out if an allocation
> failed or not:
>
> <snip>
>      if (unlikely(addr == vend))
>          goto overflow;
> <snip>


Thanks, I'll fix that.

>
>>
>> In this patch, I could retry __alloc_vmap_area() with the whole region after
>> failure of both [random, vend] and [vstart, random] but I'm not sure that
>> would help much. Worth a try of course.
>>
> There is no need in your second [vstart, random]. If a first bigger range
> has not been successful, the smaller one will never be success anyway. The
> best way to go here is to repeat with real [vsart:vend], if it still fails
> on a real range, then it will not be possible to accomplish an allocation
> request with given parameters.
>
>>
>> By the way, some of the tests in test_vmalloc.c don't check for vmalloc()
>> failure, for example in full_fit_alloc_test().
>>
> Where?

Something like this:

diff --git a/lib/test_vmalloc.c b/lib/test_vmalloc.c
index 5cf2fe9aab9e..27e5db9a96b4 100644
--- a/lib/test_vmalloc.c
+++ b/lib/test_vmalloc.c
@@ -182,9 +182,14 @@ static int long_busy_list_alloc_test(void)
        if (!ptr)
                return rv;

-       for (i = 0; i < 15000; i++)
+       for (i = 0; i < 15000; i++) {
                ptr[i] = vmalloc(1 * PAGE_SIZE);

+               if (!ptr[i])
+                       goto leave;
+       }
+
+
        for (i = 0; i < test_loop_count; i++) {
                ptr_1 = vmalloc(100 * PAGE_SIZE);
                if (!ptr_1)
@@ -236,7 +241,11 @@ static int full_fit_alloc_test(void)

        for (i = 0; i < junk_length; i++) {
                ptr[i] = vmalloc(1 * PAGE_SIZE);
+               if (!ptr[i])
+                       goto error;
                junk_ptr[i] = vmalloc(1 * PAGE_SIZE);
+               if (!junk_ptr[i])
+                       goto error;
        }

        for (i = 0; i < junk_length; i++)
@@ -256,8 +265,10 @@ static int full_fit_alloc_test(void)
        rv = 0;

 error:
-       for (i = 0; i < junk_length; i++)
+       for (i = 0; i < junk_length; i++) {
                vfree(ptr[i]);
+               vfree(junk_ptr[i]);
+       }

        vfree(ptr);
        vfree(junk_ptr);

-Topi
```