2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Roland McGrath commit 9f0ab4a3f0fdb1ff404d150618ace2fa069bb2e1 upstream. In fs/binfmt_elf.c, load_elf_interp() calls padzero() for .bss even if the PT_LOAD has no PROT_WRITE and no .bss. This generates EFAULT. Here is a small test case. (Yes, there are other, useful PT_INTERP which have only .text and no .data/.bss.) ----- ptinterp.S _start: .globl _start nop int3 ----- $ gcc -m32 -nostartfiles -nostdlib -o ptinterp ptinterp.S $ gcc -m32 -Wl,--dynamic-linker=ptinterp -o hello hello.c $ ./hello Segmentation fault # during execve() itself After applying the patch: $ ./hello Trace trap # user-mode execution after execve() finishes If the ELF headers are actually self-inconsistent, then dying is fine. But having no PROT_WRITE segment is perfectly normal and correct if there is no segment with p_memsz > p_filesz (i.e. bss). John Reiser suggested checking for PROT_WRITE in the bss logic. I think it makes most sense to simply apply the bss logic only when there is bss. This patch looks less trivial than it is due to some reindentation. It just moves the "if (last_bss > elf_bss) {" test up to include the partial-page bss logic as well as the more-pages bss logic. Reported-by: John Reiser Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 28 ++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -501,22 +501,22 @@ static unsigned long load_elf_interp(str } } - /* - * Now fill out the bss section. First pad the last page up - * to the page boundary, and then perform a mmap to make sure - * that there are zero-mapped pages up to and including the - * last bss page. - */ - if (padzero(elf_bss)) { - error = -EFAULT; - goto out_close; - } + if (last_bss > elf_bss) { + /* + * Now fill out the bss section. First pad the last page up + * to the page boundary, and then perform a mmap to make sure + * that there are zero-mapped pages up to and including the + * last bss page. + */ + if (padzero(elf_bss)) { + error = -EFAULT; + goto out_close; + } - /* What we have mapped so far */ - elf_bss = ELF_PAGESTART(elf_bss + ELF_MIN_ALIGN - 1); + /* What we have mapped so far */ + elf_bss = ELF_PAGESTART(elf_bss + ELF_MIN_ALIGN - 1); - /* Map the last of the bss segment */ - if (last_bss > elf_bss) { + /* Map the last of the bss segment */ down_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); error = do_brk(elf_bss, last_bss - elf_bss); up_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/