Hi Rich, On 15/09/15 01:17, Rich Felker wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:13:03PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote: >> On 26/08/15 11:26, Greg Ungerer wrote: >>> On 21/08/15 05:11, Rich Felker wrote: >>>> From: Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxx> >>>> >>>> On NOMMU archs, the FDPIC ELF loader sets up the usable brk range to >>>> overlap with all but the last PAGE_SIZE bytes of the stack. This leads >>>> to catastrophic memory reuse/corruption if brk is used. Fix by setting >>>> the brk area to zero size to disable its use. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxx> >>> >>> It would make sense to run this by David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>, >>> I think he wrote this code (added to CC list). >>> >>> I have no problem with it, so: >>> >>> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Has anybody picked this up to push to Linus? >> If not I can take it via the m68knommu tree. > > As far as I know, no. If you can do it that would be great. Patch applied to m68knommu git tree (for-next branch). (https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu.git/) Regards Greg >>>> --- >>>> >>>> There is no reason for the kernel to be providing a brk area at all on >>>> NOMMU; the bFLT loader does not provide one, uClibc never uses brk on >>>> NOMMU targets, and musl libc goes out of its way to avoid using brk >>>> that might run into the stack. >>> >>> I recall a long time back someone was playing with the idea of setting >>> the brk to the unused parts of the last data area page. (Somewhat like >>> this code seems to be trying). That scheme still allocated the full >>> requested stack size (IIRC) though. And that would have been on bFLT >>> executables. Anyway, just some historical reference, not really >>> relevant now. >>> >>> Regards >>> Greg >>> >>> >>> >>>> --- fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c.orig 2015-08-20 18:05:19.089888654 +0000 >>>> +++ fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c 2015-08-20 18:10:01.519871432 +0000 >>>> @@ -374,10 +388,7 @@ static int load_elf_fdpic_binary(struct >>>> PAGE_ALIGN(current->mm->start_brk); >>>> >>>> #else >>>> - /* create a stack and brk area big enough for everyone >>>> - * - the brk heap starts at the bottom and works up >>>> - * - the stack starts at the top and works down >>>> - */ >>>> + /* create a stack area and zero-size brk area */ >>>> stack_size = (stack_size + PAGE_SIZE - 1) & PAGE_MASK; >>>> if (stack_size < PAGE_SIZE * 2) >>>> stack_size = PAGE_SIZE * 2; >>>> @@ -400,8 +411,6 @@ static int load_elf_fdpic_binary(struct >>>> >>>> current->mm->brk = current->mm->start_brk; >>>> current->mm->context.end_brk = current->mm->start_brk; >>>> - current->mm->context.end_brk += >>>> - (stack_size > PAGE_SIZE) ? (stack_size - PAGE_SIZE) : 0; >>>> current->mm->start_stack = current->mm->start_brk + stack_size; >>>> #endif >>>> >>>> >>> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
