+ mm-shmem-reject-page-aligned-fallocate-end-overflow.patch added to mm-new branch
Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:32:22 -0700
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The patch titled
Subject: mm: shmem: reject page-aligned fallocate end overflow
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch. Its filename is
mm-shmem-reject-page-aligned-fallocate-end-overflow.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-shmem-reject-page-aligned-fallocate-end-overflow.patch
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From: Zhiling Zou <[email protected]>
Subject: mm: shmem: reject page-aligned fallocate end overflow
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:22:51 +0800
shmem_fallocate() validates offset + len with inode_newsize_ok(), but then
rounds that end offset up to a page boundary before entering the
preallocation loop.
For a valid request ending at MAX_LFS_FILESIZE, such as offset = 0 and len
= LLONG_MAX, adding PAGE_SIZE - 1 to the validated end can overflow the
signed loff_t used for the rounded end calculation. If that wrapped value
is then converted into a page index, shmem_fallocate() can enter the folio
allocation loop with an invalid range.
Use check_add_overflow() when calculating the page-aligned end, and fail
before entering the allocation loop if the rounded end cannot be
represented.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/1929a466735dcbb9438936ff50b7a4fc2332a8a4.1785377919.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai
Fixes: e2d12e22c59c ("tmpfs: support fallocate preallocation")
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Vega <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
mm/shmem.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-shmem-reject-page-aligned-fallocate-end-overflow
+++ a/mm/shmem.c
@@ -3627,6 +3627,7 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file
struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
struct shmem_falloc shmem_falloc;
pgoff_t start, index, end, undo_fallocend;
+ loff_t aligned_end;
int error;
if (mode & ~(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE))
@@ -3683,8 +3684,15 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file
goto out;
}
+ /* Check for wraparound */
+ if (check_add_overflow(offset + len, (loff_t)PAGE_SIZE - 1,
+ &aligned_end)) {
+ error = -EFBIG;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
start = offset >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- end = (offset + len + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ end = aligned_end >> PAGE_SHIFT;
/* Try to avoid a swapstorm if len is impossible to satisfy */
if (sbinfo->max_blocks && end - start > sbinfo->max_blocks) {
error = -ENOSPC;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
mm-page_table_check-skip-special-zero-mappings.patch
mm-shmem-reject-page-aligned-fallocate-end-overflow.patch