On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 23:31:56 -0400 Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Let's take the simple and obvious approach by decompressing the binary > into a kernel buffer and then copying it to user space. Those who are > looking for more performance on a MMU system are unlikely to choose this > executable format anyway. The flat loader takes a very casual attitude to overruns and corrupted binaries. It's after all MMUless so has no real security model. If you enable flat for an MMU system then IMHO those all need to be fixed including all the missing overflow checks on the maths on textlen and the like. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html