Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

[Andrew Morton]

Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>  > Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> # fs/binfmt_elf.c
>  >>> #   2005/01/17 13:37:56-08:00 ecd@xxxxxxxxx +43 -19
>  >>> #   [SPARC64]: Missing user access return value checks in fs/binfmt_elf.c and fs/compat.c
>  >>> #
>  >>
>  >> I think so. For a short period we applied this patch to the Gentoo 2.6.10
>  >> kernel...
>  >>
>  >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-dev-sources/release-10.01/dist/1900_umem_catch.patch
>  >>
>  >> ...but removed it once users complained it stopped kylix binaries from running.
>  >
>  > Bah.  That's what happens when you fix stuff.
>  >
>  > What's kylix?  The Borland C++ builder thing?
> 
>  Rather Delphi (== Object Pascal) thing.
> 
> 
>  > How should one set about reproducing this problem?
> 
>  IIRC, Some minimal "personal" version can be downloaded from borland.com.

Well I'd prefer that we not back out the whole patch.  Could someone please
test with something like the below, let us know exactly where it's falling
over?


--- 25/fs/binfmt_elf.c~a	2005-02-07 20:01:16.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/fs/binfmt_elf.c	2005-02-07 20:03:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
 
 #include <linux/elf.h>
 
+#define D() do { printk("%s:%d\n", __FILE__, __LINE__); dump_stack(); } while (0)
+
 static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm * bprm, struct pt_regs * regs);
 static int load_elf_library(struct file*);
 static unsigned long elf_map (struct file *, unsigned long, struct elf_phdr *, int, int);
@@ -181,8 +183,10 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *b
 			STACK_ALLOC(p, ((current->pid % 64) << 7));
 #endif
 		u_platform = (elf_addr_t __user *)STACK_ALLOC(p, len);
-		if (__copy_to_user(u_platform, k_platform, len))
+		if (__copy_to_user(u_platform, k_platform, len)) {
+			D();
 			return -EFAULT;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* Create the ELF interpreter info */
@@ -244,8 +248,10 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *b
 #endif
 
 	/* Now, let's put argc (and argv, envp if appropriate) on the stack */
-	if (__put_user(argc, sp++))
+	if (__put_user(argc, sp++)) {
+		D();
 		return -EFAULT;
+	}
 	if (interp_aout) {
 		argv = sp + 2;
 		envp = argv + argc + 1;
@@ -266,8 +272,10 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *b
 			return 0;
 		p += len;
 	}
-	if (__put_user(0, argv))
+	if (__put_user(0, argv)) {
+		D();
 		return -EFAULT;
+	}
 	current->mm->arg_end = current->mm->env_start = p;
 	while (envc-- > 0) {
 		size_t len;
@@ -277,14 +285,18 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *b
 			return 0;
 		p += len;
 	}
-	if (__put_user(0, envp))
+	if (__put_user(0, envp)) {
+		D();
 		return -EFAULT;
+	}
 	current->mm->env_end = p;
 
 	/* Put the elf_info on the stack in the right place.  */
 	sp = (elf_addr_t __user *)envp + 1;
-	if (copy_to_user(sp, elf_info, ei_index * sizeof(elf_addr_t)))
+	if (copy_to_user(sp, elf_info, ei_index * sizeof(elf_addr_t))) {
+		D();
 		return -EFAULT;
+	}
 	return 0;
 }
 
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