From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> stable inclusion from stable-v6.6.148 commit c62bb00caba66e01fb578d5f0302f247dc64930a category: bugfix bugzilla: https://atomgit.com/src-openeuler/kernel/issues/16979 CVE: CVE-2026-68187 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... -------------------------------- commit 16cc4f5c1c4b9e45eca7f7deefa5410a292db599 upstream. The stop value is derived from bprm->p >> PAGE_SHIFT. The index variable is an unsigned long. If bprm->p drops below PAGE_SIZE and stop becomes zero the loop condition index >= stop is always true. After the index == 0 iteration the decrement wraps to ULONG_MAX and bprm->page[ULONG_MAX] reads sizeof(void *) bytes in front of the array. The pointer has wrapped to -1. That garbage pointer is then passed to kmap_local_page() and PAGE_SIZE bytes are copied from wherever that lands into the stack of the process being created. And the loop doesn't terminate either... Getting there only requires bprm->p < PAGE_SIZE. On !MMU bprm_set_stack_limit() and bprm_hit_stack_limit() are empty. So the only constraint on how far bprm->p is pushed down is valid_arg_len(), i.e. that each individual string still fits in what is left. bprm->p starts at PAGE_SIZE * MAX_ARG_PAGES - sizeof(void *) so a single argument or environment string of a little over 31 pages leaves it in the first page: Oops - load access fault [#1] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: victim Not tainted 7.2.0-rc4 #1 epc : __memcpy+0xd4/0xf8 ra : transfer_args_to_stack+0xaa/0xae s4 : ffffffffffffffff s2 : 0000000000000000 a1 : ffffffdc98000000 a2 : 0000000000001000 status: 0000000a00001880 badaddr: ffffffdc98000000 cause: 0000000000000005 [<801a5324>] __memcpy+0xd4/0xf8 [<800d5f6a>] load_flat_binary+0x43a/0x65e [<800a2de4>] bprm_execve+0x1d4/0x316 [<800a351a>] do_execveat_common+0x12e/0x138 [<800a3d44>] __riscv_sys_execve+0x38/0x4e Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt This is an arcane bug but we should still fix it. Count down from MAX_ARG_PAGES so the loop ends when index reaches stop, stop == 0 included. The iterations performed are unchanged for every other value of stop. Only CONFIG_MMU=n builds are affected, transfer_args_to_stack() is used by binfmt_flat and binfmt_elf_fdpic on nommu only. The loop predates git history. commit 7e7ec6a93434 ("elf_fdpic_transfer_args_to_stack(): make it generic") only moved it from binfmt_elf_fdpic.c into fs/exec.c and narrowed the copy to the used part of the first page. The condition and the decrement are unchanged from 2.6.12-rc2. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260721-hochachtung-staumauer-pigmente-15d71f7d7d0... Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Chen Jinghuang <chenjinghuang2@huawei.com> --- fs/exec.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 162d0f3ccd64..051b00282310 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ int transfer_args_to_stack(struct linux_binprm *bprm, stop = bprm->p >> PAGE_SHIFT; sp = *sp_location; - for (index = MAX_ARG_PAGES - 1; index >= stop; index--) { + for (index = MAX_ARG_PAGES; index-- > stop; ) { unsigned int offset = index == stop ? bprm->p & ~PAGE_MASK : 0; char *src = kmap_local_page(bprm->page[index]) + offset; sp -= PAGE_SIZE - offset; -- 2.34.1