Now that explicitly executed loaders are loaded in the mmap region, position PIE binaries lower in the address space to avoid possible collisions with mmap or stack regions. For 64-bit, align to 4GB to allow runtimes to use the entire 32-bit address space for 32-bit pointers. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h index 09bde6e34f5d..548d9a411a0d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h @@ -23,12 +23,13 @@ #define CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE PAGE_SIZE -/* This is the location that an ET_DYN program is loaded if exec'ed. Typical - use of this is to invoke "./ld.so someprog" to test out a new version of - the loader. We need to make sure that it is out of the way of the program - that it will "exec", and that there is sufficient room for the brk. */ - -#define ELF_ET_DYN_BASE 0x20000000 +/* + * This is the base location for PIE (ET_DYN with INTERP) loads. On + * 64-bit, this is raised to 4GB to leave the entire 32-bit address + * space open for things that want to use the area for 32-bit pointers. + */ +#define ELF_ET_DYN_BASE (is_32bit_task() ? 0x000400000UL : \ + 0x100000000UL) #define ELF_CORE_EFLAGS (is_elf2_task() ? 2 : 0) -- 2.7.4