[PATCH] [RESEND] brk: COMPAT_BRK: fix detection of randomized brk

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Apr 08 2011 - 12:57:21 EST


5520e89 ("brk: fix min_brk lower bound computation for COMPAT_BRK")
tried to get the whole logic of brk randomization for legacy (libc5-based)
applications finally right.

It turns out that the way to detect whether brk has actually been randomized in
the end or not introduced by that patch still doesn't work for those binaries,
as reported by Geert.

I don't like it, but currently see no better option than a bit flag in
task_struct to catch the CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK && randomize_va_space == 2
case.

LKML-Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/24/577
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

I am not really happy about introducing the bit flag, but I currently
don't see another option. And it's only for the legacy CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK
case anyway.

fs/binfmt_elf.c | 6 +++++-
include/linux/sched.h | 3 +++
mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index f34078d..303983f 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -941,9 +941,13 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct pt_regs *regs)
current->mm->start_stack = bprm->p;

#ifdef arch_randomize_brk
- if ((current->flags & PF_RANDOMIZE) && (randomize_va_space > 1))
+ if ((current->flags & PF_RANDOMIZE) && (randomize_va_space > 1)) {
current->mm->brk = current->mm->start_brk =
arch_randomize_brk(current->mm);
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK
+ current->brk_randomized = 1;
+#endif
+ }
#endif

if (current->personality & MMAP_PAGE_ZERO) {
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 83bd2e2..239d2fe 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1254,6 +1254,9 @@ struct task_struct {
#endif

struct mm_struct *mm, *active_mm;
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK
+ unsigned brk_randomized:1;
+#endif
#if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING)
struct task_rss_stat rss_stat;
#endif
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 2ec8eb5..318ed2d 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(brk, unsigned long, brk)
* randomize_va_space to 2, which will still cause mm->start_brk
* to be arbitrarily shifted
*/
- if (mm->start_brk > PAGE_ALIGN(mm->end_data))
+ if (current->brk_randomized)
min_brk = mm->start_brk;
else
min_brk = mm->end_data;
--
1.7.3.1

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