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From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kratochvil <honza@jikos.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RESEND] PIE randomization
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:53:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <468D5A3A.1010306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707041927090.11634@jikos.suse.cz>

On 07/04/2007 01:35 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 
>> The above highlighted changes are the cause of random segfaults of PIE 
>> binaries.  See 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246623 
> 
> Thanks a lot for pointing this out. Andrew, could this be folded into 
> pie-randomization.patch please?
> 
> 
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> 
> pie randomization: fix BAD_ADDR macro
> 
> pie-randomization.patch makes the load_addr in load_elf_interp() the load 
> bias of ld.so (difference between the actual load base address and first 
> PT_LOAD segment's p_vaddr). If the difference equals (on x86) to 
> 0xfffff000 (which is valid [1]), SIGSEGV is incorrectly sent.
> 
> This patch changes the BAD_ADDR so that it catches the mappings to the 
> error-area properly.

But what about this patch that made the opposite change:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ce51059be56f63762089412b3ece348067afda85

There was a reason for that change...


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-05 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-11 12:33 [PATCH][RESEND] PIE randomization Jan Kratochvil
2007-05-11 19:56 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-11 20:18   ` Jiri Kosina
2007-05-11 20:36     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-11 22:41       ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-11 23:50       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-05-16 17:14         ` Jiri Kosina
2007-05-17 20:24           ` Jan Kratochvil
2007-05-17 21:50             ` Jiri Kosina
2007-05-18 17:29             ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-21 14:58             ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-22 23:16             ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-23  8:50               ` Jiri Kosina
2007-07-04  8:25                 ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-07-04 17:35                   ` Jiri Kosina
2007-07-05 20:53                     ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-07-05 20:57                       ` Rik van Riel
2007-07-07  0:13                         ` Jiri Kosina
2007-07-07 12:30                           ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-07-09 11:41                             ` Jiri Kosina
2007-07-09 21:58                               ` Jiri Kosina
2007-07-10  9:47                                 ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-07-11  9:58                                   ` Jiri Kosina

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