linux-kernel - Re: brk() should check randomize_va_space rather then CONFIG_COMPAT

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Date:	Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:33:21 +0100
From:	Frank Heckenbach <f.heckenbach@...soft.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jkosina@...e.cz
Subject: Re: brk() should check
	randomize_va_space rather then CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK

Jiri Kosina wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 
> > how do you avoid race here?
> > 
> > More precisely -- randomize_va_space can be changed in runtime, when 
> > already running processess have been started with different 
> > randomize_va_space value (and thus the shifting of mm->brk already 
> > happened in arch_randomize_brk())

I see. So would it help setting mm->brk = mm->start_brk =
mm->end_code if randomize_va_space < 2 in load_elf_binary() (and
elsewhere if needed -- not sure if other binformats are affected)?

> Oh, and also see the commit
> 
> 	commit 5520e89485252c759ee60d313e9422447659947b
> 	Author: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> 	Date:   Thu Jan 13 15:47:23 2011 -0800
> 
> 	    brk: fix min_brk lower bound computation for COMPAT_BRK
> 
> which is quite relevant here as well

AFAICS, this patch only changes the CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK case. I'm more
interested in the !CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK case (since my old binaries
work with CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK as is). Since e.g., Debian's default
kernel doesn't set CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK, I had hoped I could get them
to run by setting randomize_va_space to 0 or 1.

> (and you seem to be sending patch
> against code that doesn't have this patch applied).

Well, I used the last stable release; I hadn't noticed there was a
more recent change, sorry.

Frank
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