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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703211940370.24602@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:01:50 +0000 (GMT)
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@...flux.net>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: revert PIE randomization?
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hugh Dickins said:
> > Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1217: dl_main:
> > Assertion `_rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_libname' failed!
>
> I'm trying to reproduce the problem you saw (so that I can then test
> your proposed fix). However, I haven't had any luck. I've got a
> pie-compiled version of bash, and I've been running it in a loop for a
> while now with the original randomization patch. (I can clearly see the
> base address bouncing around.)
>
> I'm at just over 10 million exec's, and I haven't hit the problem. :(
>
> Do you have any clues on how to trigger this more reliably?
It was in doing kernel builds that I hit it, nothing special: an
overnight cycle of kernel building would collapse in a few hours.
openSUSE 10.2.
If that doesn't reproduce it for you, let me know and I'll try again
with the original patch, to reproduce it here: maybe something else
has changed in 2.6.21-rc to affect it.
>
> Also, does anyone have any thoughts on why x86 uses a ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
> below the libraries, where as x86_64 uses one above them? From this,
> I'd expect x86_64 to collide with the libraries at times. I need more
> help understanding the memory layouts, I guess. :)
Andi would tell definitively, but I guess it's merely that with so
much more address space to play with, x86_64 can divide up that space
more satisfactorily.
But don't be misled: try "ulimit -s unlimited" and I expect you'll
find i386 allocating mmap addresses (hence libraries) from the
opposite end, below ELF_ET_DYN_BASE.
Hugh
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