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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v1] Arm64: ASLR: fix text randomization
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 12:21:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141008112154.GF26140@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFdej01hex6aeNNjdA1uDodEQ-d=JhsoqFJHkPvnKY+xbzZmxw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 07:51:54AM +0100, Arun Chandran wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> > I wasn't able to spot where the randomness came from in the
> > ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE case, so it's not clear to me if the
> > generic implementation behaves identically other than disabling
> > randomization when told to via proc.
> 
> I also don't know from where it is coming; but it works on arm and x86 :)

The randomness will come from elf_map, since that will descend into the mmap
code and end up with a randomised base address (see mmap_base and
arch_pick_mmap_layout).

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-08 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-07 12:40 [PATCH v1] Arm64: ASLR: fix text randomization Arun Chandran
2014-10-07 13:43 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-08  6:51   ` Arun Chandran
2014-10-08 11:21     ` Will Deacon [this message]
2014-10-09 14:44       ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-10 11:31         ` [PATCH v2] Arm64: ASLR: Don't randomise text when randomise_va_space == 0 Arun Chandran

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