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Message-ID: <20080204122837.GA1647@elf.ucw.cz>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:28:37 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: jikos@...e.cz, kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: brk randomization breaks columns
Hi!
Columns is very popular game of year about 1993, and brk randomization
breaks it. (Along with my boot, but who cares about boot when game is
broken?)
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
breaks columns
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
fixes them.
root@amd:~# ls -al `which columns-bin`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 100515 Aug 7 1997 /usr/local/bin/columns-bin*
root@amd:~# ldd `which columns-bin`
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0xb7e22000)
root@amd:~#
pavel@amd:~$ strace columns-bin
execve("/usr/local/bin/columns-bin", ["columns-bin"], [/* 31 vars */])
= 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0xb7f78000
mprotect(0xb7f79000, 21406, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0x8048000, 31345, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
stat("/etc/ld.so.cache", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=106939, ...})
= 0
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
old_mmap(NULL, 106939, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0xb7f5d000
close(3) = 0
stat("/etc/ld.so.preload", 0xbf87f348) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/home/pavel/lib/libc.so.5", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
open("/lib/libc.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240\32"...,
4096) = 4096
old_mmap(NULL, 786432, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0xb7e9d000
old_mmap(0xb7e9d000, 552787, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) = 0xb7e9d000
old_mmap(0xb7f24000, 21848, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x86000) = 0xb7f24000
old_mmap(0xb7f2a000, 204908, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f2a000
close(3) = 0
mprotect(0xb7e9d000, 552787, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
munmap(0xb7f5d000, 106939) = 0
mprotect(0x8048000, 31345, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xb7e9d000, 552787, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xb7f79000, 21406, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0
personality(PER_LINUX) = 4194304
geteuid() = 1000
getuid() = 1000
getgid() = 1002
getegid() = 1002
brk(0x8054098) = 0x8054098
brk(0x8055000) = 0x8055000
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
Process 1517 detached
pavel@amd:~$
columns die due to
Feb 4 12:29:32 amd kernel: columns-bin[4535]: segfault at 8052000 ip b7f08a9a sp bfb79628 error 6 in
libc.so.5.4.33[b7e99000+87000]
Just before death,
root@amd:~# cat /proc/4537/maps
08048000-08050000 r-xp 00000000 08:04 246209 /usr/local/bin/columns-bin
08050000-08051000 rwxp 00007000 08:04 246209 /usr/local/bin/columns-bin
08051000-08052000 rwxp 08051000 00:00 0
b7f00000-b7f87000 r-xp 00000000 08:04 373330 /lib/libc.so.5.4.33
b7f87000-b7f8d000 rwxp 00086000 08:04 373330 /lib/libc.so.5.4.33
b7f8d000-b7fc0000 rwxp b7f8d000 00:00 0
b7fdb000-b7fdc000 rwxp b7fdb000 00:00 0
b7fdc000-b7fe2000 r-xp 00000000 08:04 373339 /lib/ld-linux.so.1.9.11
b7fe2000-b7fe3000 rwxp 00005000 08:04 373339 /lib/ld-linux.so.1.9.11
bface000-bfae3000 rwxp bffeb000 00:00 0 [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
root@amd:~#
...which is strange. Columns asked for brk, but kernel assigned it no
heap. No wonder columns are crashing.
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb7f6fa60 in memset () from /lib/libc.so.5
#1 0xb7f7b4a3 in initialize () from /lib/libc.so.5
#2 0x00000024 in ?? ()
#3 0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)
(gdb) disassemble
Dump of assembler code for function memset:
0xb7f6fa60 <memset+0>: push %ebp
0xb7f6fa61 <memset+1>: push %edi
0xb7f6fa62 <memset+2>: push %esi
0xb7f6fa63 <memset+3>: mov 0x10(%esp),%ebp
0xb7f6fa67 <memset+7>: mov 0x18(%esp),%esi
0xb7f6fa6b <memset+11>: mov %ebp,%edi
0xb7f6fa6d <memset+13>: movzbl 0x14(%esp),%eax
0xb7f6fa72 <memset+18>: cld
0xb7f6fa73 <memset+19>: cmp $0xb,%esi
0xb7f6fa76 <memset+22>: jbe 0xb7f6fa9f <memset+63>
0xb7f6fa78 <memset+24>: mov %eax,%edx
0xb7f6fa7a <memset+26>: shl $0x8,%edx
0xb7f6fa7d <memset+29>: or %edx,%eax
0xb7f6fa7f <memset+31>: mov %eax,%edx
0xb7f6fa81 <memset+33>: shl $0x10,%edx
0xb7f6fa84 <memset+36>: or %edx,%eax
0xb7f6fa86 <memset+38>: mov %ebp,%edx
0xb7f6fa88 <memset+40>: neg %edx
0xb7f6fa8a <memset+42>: and $0x3,%edx
0xb7f6fa8d <memset+45>: sub %edx,%esi
0xb7f6fa8f <memset+47>: mov %edx,%ecx
0xb7f6fa91 <memset+49>: rep stos %al,%es:(%edi)
0xb7f6fa93 <memset+51>: mov %esi,%edx
0xb7f6fa95 <memset+53>: shr $0x2,%edx
0xb7f6fa98 <memset+56>: mov %edx,%ecx
0xb7f6fa9a <memset+58>: rep stos %eax,%es:(%edi)
0xb7f6fa9c <memset+60>: and $0x3,%esi
0xb7f6fa9f <memset+63>: mov %esi,%ecx
0xb7f6faa1 <memset+65>: rep stos %al,%es:(%edi)
0xb7f6faa3 <memset+67>: mov %ebp,%eax
0xb7f6faa5 <memset+69>: pop %esi
0xb7f6faa6 <memset+70>: pop %edi
0xb7f6faa7 <memset+71>: pop %ebp
0xb7f6faa8 <memset+72>: ret
End of assembler dump.
(gdb)
(gdb) i r
eax 0x3000 12288
ecx 0x8055000 134565888
edx 0xb7f8ac68 -1208439704
ebx 0xb7f8bb08 -1208435960
esp 0xbfae1db4 0xbfae1db4
ebp 0xb7fbf058 0xb7fbf058
esi 0xf68 3944
edi 0x8052000 134553600
eip 0xb7f6fa60 0xb7f6fa60 <memset>
eflags 0x282 [ SF IF ]
cs 0x73 115
ss 0x7b 123
ds 0x7b 123
es 0x7b 123
fs 0x0 0
gs 0x0 0
(gdb)
Hmm, code in binfmt_elf is really strange.
elf_bss += load_bias;
elf_brk += load_bias;
start_code += load_bias;
end_code += load_bias;
start_data += load_bias;
end_data += load_bias;
/* Calling set_brk effectively mmaps the pages that we need
* for the bss and break sections. We must do this before
* mapping in the interpreter, to make sure it doesn't wind
* up getting placed where the bss needs to go.
*/
retval = set_brk(elf_bss, elf_brk);
... so we allocate non-randoimzed brk, but later we just overwrite bss
variable with new, shiner and better randomized value... without
unmapping the old one... The code in binfmt_elf.c is really a mess.
Pavel
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