From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kees Cook Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:06:31 -0700 Message-Id: <1498154792-49952-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> In-Reply-To: <1498154792-49952-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> References: <1498154792-49952-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> Subject: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 3/4] powerpc: Reduce ELF_ET_DYN_BASE List-Archive: List-Post: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Kees Cook , Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , James Hogan , Pratyush Anand , Ingo Molnar , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com List-ID: Now that explicitly executed loaders are loaded in the mmap region, position PIE binaries lower in the address space to avoid possible collisions with mmap or stack regions. For 64-bit, align to 4GB to allow runtimes to use the entire 32-bit address space for 32-bit pointers. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h index 09bde6e34f5d..548d9a411a0d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h @@ -23,12 +23,13 @@ #define CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE PAGE_SIZE -/* This is the location that an ET_DYN program is loaded if exec'ed. Typical - use of this is to invoke "./ld.so someprog" to test out a new version of - the loader. We need to make sure that it is out of the way of the program - that it will "exec", and that there is sufficient room for the brk. */ - -#define ELF_ET_DYN_BASE 0x20000000 +/* + * This is the base location for PIE (ET_DYN with INTERP) loads. On + * 64-bit, this is raised to 4GB to leave the entire 32-bit address + * space open for things that want to use the area for 32-bit pointers. + */ +#define ELF_ET_DYN_BASE (is_32bit_task() ? 0x000400000UL : \ + 0x100000000UL) #define ELF_CORE_EFLAGS (is_elf2_task() ? 2 : 0) -- 2.7.4