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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-01-14 00:47:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-14 02:32:48 +0100 |
| commit | 5520e89485252c759ee60d313e9422447659947b (patch) | |
| tree | cae55e5e44e86a19af4103ec129d887004d26b5b /mm | |
| parent | mm/hugetlb.c: fix error-path memory leak in nr_hugepages_store_common() (diff) | |
| download | linux-5520e89485252c759ee60d313e9422447659947b.tar.xz linux-5520e89485252c759ee60d313e9422447659947b.zip | |
brk: fix min_brk lower bound computation for COMPAT_BRK
Even if CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is set in the kernel configuration, it can still
be overriden by randomize_va_space sysctl.
If this is the case, the min_brk computation in sys_brk() implementation
is wrong, as it solely takes into account COMPAT_BRK setting, assuming
that brk start is not randomized. But that might not be the case if
randomize_va_space sysctl has been set to '2' at the time the binary has
been loaded from disk.
In such case, the check has to be done in a same way as in
!CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK case.
In addition to that, the check for the COMPAT_BRK case introduced back in
a5b4592c ("brk: make sys_brk() honor COMPAT_BRK when computing lower
bound") is slightly wrong -- the lower bound shouldn't be mm->end_code,
but mm->end_data instead, as that's where the legacy applications expect
brk section to start (i.e. immediately after last global variable).
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mmap.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 73cc648873d6..2ec8eb5a9cdd 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -254,7 +254,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(brk, unsigned long, brk) down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK - min_brk = mm->end_code; + /* + * CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK can still be overridden by setting + * randomize_va_space to 2, which will still cause mm->start_brk + * to be arbitrarily shifted + */ + if (mm->start_brk > PAGE_ALIGN(mm->end_data)) + min_brk = mm->start_brk; + else + min_brk = mm->end_data; #else min_brk = mm->start_brk; #endif |