On 03/23/2018 02:06 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 02:00:24PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 05:48:06AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 07:36:36PM +0300, Ilya Smith wrote: >>>> Current implementation doesn't randomize address returned by mmap. >>>> All the entropy ends with choosing mmap_base_addr at the process >>>> creation. After that mmap build very predictable layout of address >>>> space. It allows to bypass ASLR in many cases. This patch make >>>> randomization of address on any mmap call. >>> >>> Why should this be done in the kernel rather than libc? libc is perfectly >>> capable of specifying random numbers in the first argument of mmap. >> >> Generally libc does not have a view of the current vm maps, and thus >> in passing "random numbers", they would have to be uniform across the >> whole vm space and thus non-uniform once the kernel rounds up to avoid >> existing mappings. > > I'm aware that you're the musl author, but glibc somehow manages to > provide etext, edata and end, demonstrating that it does know where at > least some of the memory map lies. You can parse /proc/self/maps, but it's really expensive and disgusting. Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
