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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 and x86_64: randomize brk()
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:58:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070822155833.5142e588.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708221750340.7792@jikos.suse.cz>

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:05:01 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:

> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> 
> i386 and x86_64: randomize brk()
> 
> This patch randomizes the location of the heap (brk) for i386 and x86_64. 
> The range is randomized in the range starting at current brk location up 
> to 0x02000000 offset on both architectures. This, together with 
> pie-executable-randomization.patch and 
> pie-executable-randomization-fix.patch, should make the address space 
> randomization on i386 and x86_64 complete (modulo vDSO randomization).
> 
> The code is based on execshield code written by Ingo Molnar.

My main concern right now is to try to stabilise the rc3-mm1 mess, so I
think I'll duck this for now.  

> +#ifdef ARCH_HAS_RANDOMIZE_BRK
> +	if (current->flags & PF_RANDOMIZE)
> +		arch_randomize_brk();
> +#endif

erk, please no.

It'd be better to put

static inline void arch_randomize_brk(void)
{
}

into all the other architecture's elf.h, then lose all the ifdefs.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-22 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-22 16:05 [PATCH] i386 and x86_64: randomize brk() Jiri Kosina
2007-08-22 22:58 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-08-22 23:04   ` Jiri Kosina
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-30 13:47 Jiri Kosina
2007-08-30 14:01 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-08-30 14:21   ` Jiri Kosina
2007-08-30 14:26     ` Mike Frysinger
2007-08-30 15:10       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-08-30 15:33         ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-08-31  1:05         ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-31 11:56           ` Jiri Kosina
2007-09-01 20:19           ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-09-02 20:28             ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-03  9:34               ` Jiri Kosina
2007-09-03 10:03                 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-09-03 17:38                   ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-09-03 20:44                     ` Jiri Kosina

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