arm32 binaries work with CONFIG_COMPAT as root but not as user?

[catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:52:21AM +0000, Riku Voipio wrote:
> Perhaps I'm missing here something, but seems I can only run 32bit arm
> programs on arm64 system if I am root. So far even the simplest hello
> world will be killed/segfaulted on startup. This is on mustang hw.
> 
> taking on 3.19-rc3 with arch=arm64 and make defconfig:

It works for me with the arm64 for-next/core branch, I haven't tried
vanilla 3.19-rc3 yet. Do you have other patches applied?

> wget http://kos.to/hello-test/hello
> # file hello
> hello: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV),
> statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32,
> BuildID[sha1]=c37a3b366d645eee600963a535370fa0bad9b2c0, not stripped
> # ./hello
> hello world
> # su - linaro
> $ /root/hello
> Segmentation fault
> $ gdb /root/hello
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /root/hello
> During startup program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

Do you get some kernel message?

This works for me with Debian armel.

> If you have a debian/ubuntu system, you can also reproduce it with multiarch:
> 
> dpkg --add-architecture armhf
> apt-get update
> apt-get install hello:armhf
> # hello
> Hello, world!
> # su - ubuntu
> $ hello
> Segmentation fault
> $

This works as well.

What does this say:

# cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr

If it is 64K, it won't run 32-bit apps as non-root.

-- 
Catalin