The elf-fdpic loader hard sets the process personality to either PER_LINUX_FDPIC for true elf-fdpic binaries or to PER_LINUX for normal ELF binaries (in this case they would be constant displacement compiled with -pie for example). The problem with that is that it will lose any other bits that may be in the ELF header personality (such as the "bug emulation" bits). On the ARM architecture the ADDR_LIMIT_32BIT flag is used to signify a normal 32bit binary - as opposed to a legacy 26bit address binary. This matters since start_thread() will set the ARM CPSR register as required based on this flag. If the elf-fdpic loader loses this bit the process will be mis-configured and crash out pretty quickly. Modify elf-fdpic loader personality setting so that it preserves the upper three bytes by using the SET_PERSONALITY macro to set it. This macro in the generic case sets PER_LINUX and preserves the upper bytes. Architectures can override this for their specific use case, and ARM does exactly this. The problem shows up quite easily running under qemu using the ARM architecture, but not necessarily on all types of real ARM hardware. If the underlying ARM processor does not support the legacy 26-bit addressing mode then everything will work as expected. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) v2: fixes the elf-fdpic binary case as well I have done more extensive testing, and in particular on the true elf-fdpic case. It was broken for that too (as expected). diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c index 43b2a2851ba3..206812ce544a 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c @@ -345,10 +345,9 @@ static int load_elf_fdpic_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm) /* there's now no turning back... the old userspace image is dead, * defunct, deceased, etc. */ + SET_PERSONALITY(exec_params.hdr); if (elf_check_fdpic(&exec_params.hdr)) - set_personality(PER_LINUX_FDPIC); - else - set_personality(PER_LINUX); + current->personality |= PER_LINUX_FDPIC; if (elf_read_implies_exec(&exec_params.hdr, executable_stack)) current->personality |= READ_IMPLIES_EXEC; -- 2.25.1
