From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com
Subject: Re: Fix handling of ELF segments with zero filesize
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:36:41 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051201053641.GA11928@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051201052642.GW11266@alpha.home.local>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 06:26:42AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:20:49AM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > Andrew, please apply
> >
> > mmap() returns -EINVAL if given a zero length, and thus elf_map() in
> > binfmt_elf.c does likewise if it attempts to map a (page-aligned) ELF
> > segment with zero filesize. Such a situation never arises with the
> > default linker scripts, but there's nothing inherently wrong with
> > zero-filesize (but non-zero memsize) ELF segments. Custom linker
> > scripts can generate them, and the kernel should be able to map them;
> > this patch makes it so.
>
> David, 2.4 has exactly the same code, do you see anything wrong with
> applying this patch to 2.4 too ?
Nothing that I can think of.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-01 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-01 0:20 Fix handling of ELF segments with zero filesize David Gibson
2005-12-01 0:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-12-01 5:26 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-12-01 5:36 ` David Gibson [this message]
2005-12-01 5:45 ` Willy Tarreau
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