linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] binfmt_elf: fully allocate bss pages

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Message-ID: <3c0f1acf-b95b-3570-bf51-7716b6209f16@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2023 21:35:20 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Sebastian Ott <sebott@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] binfmt_elf: fully allocate bss pages

Hej Thomas,

On Thu, 14 Sep 2023, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> fs/binfmt_elf.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> index 7b3d2d491407..4008a57d388b 100644
> --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static struct linux_binfmt elf_format = {
>
> static int set_brk(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int prot)
> {
> -	start = ELF_PAGEALIGN(start);
> +	start = ELF_PAGESTART(start);
> 	end = ELF_PAGEALIGN(end);
> 	if (end > start) {
> 		/*
>

My arm box failed to boot with that patch applied on top of 6.6-rc1 .
There was nothing suspicious on the serial console it just hung somewhere
in userspace initialization. Sadly there was also nothing in the system
logs. 6.6-rc1 worked fine.

Sebastian