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| author | Linus Torvalds | 2022-03-01 11:31:37 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2022-03-01 11:31:37 -0800 |
| commit | 575115360652e9920cc56a028a286ebe9bf82694 (patch) | |
| tree | 7ff4d0bf0b93d0353cfdc94e186b91999522f8d5 /fs | |
| parent | 719fce7539cd3e186598e2aed36325fe892150cf (diff) | |
| parent | 439a8468242b313486e69b8cc3b45ddcfa898fbf (diff) | |
Merge tag 'binfmt_elf-v5.17-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull binfmt_elf fix from Kees Cook:
"This addresses a regression[1] under ia64 where some ET_EXEC binaries
were not loading"
Link: https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/a3edd529-c42d-3b09-135c-7e98a15b150f@leemhuis.info/ [1]
- Fix ia64 ET_EXEC loading
* tag 'binfmt_elf-v5.17-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
binfmt_elf: Avoid total_mapping_size for ET_EXEC
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/binfmt_elf.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index 9e11e6f13e83..d61543fbd652 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -1135,14 +1135,25 @@ out_free_interp: * is then page aligned. */ load_bias = ELF_PAGESTART(load_bias - vaddr); - } - /* - * Calculate the entire size of the ELF mapping (total_size). - * (Note that load_addr_set is set to true later once the - * initial mapping is performed.) - */ - if (!load_addr_set) { + /* + * Calculate the entire size of the ELF mapping + * (total_size), used for the initial mapping, + * due to load_addr_set which is set to true later + * once the initial mapping is performed. + * + * Note that this is only sensible when the LOAD + * segments are contiguous (or overlapping). If + * used for LOADs that are far apart, this would + * cause the holes between LOADs to be mapped, + * running the risk of having the mapping fail, + * as it would be larger than the ELF file itself. + * + * As a result, only ET_DYN does this, since + * some ET_EXEC (e.g. ia64) may have large virtual + * memory holes between LOADs. + * + */ total_size = total_mapping_size(elf_phdata, elf_ex->e_phnum); if (!total_size) { |