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binfmt_elf: fix PIE execution with randomization disabled
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The case of address space randomization being disabled in runtime through
randomize_va_space sysctl is not treated properly in load_elf_binary(),
resulting in SIGKILL coming at exec() time for certain PIE-linked binaries
in case the randomization has been disabled at runtime prior to calling
exec().

Handle the randomize_va_space == 0 case the same way as if we were not
supporting .text randomization at all.

Based on original patch by H.J. Lu and Josh Boyer.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jiri Kosina authored and torvalds committed Nov 2, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -795,7 +795,16 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct pt_regs *regs)
* might try to exec. This is because the brk will
* follow the loader, and is not movable. */
#if defined(CONFIG_X86) || defined(CONFIG_ARM)
load_bias = 0;
/* Memory randomization might have been switched off
* in runtime via sysctl.
* If that is the case, retain the original non-zero
* load_bias value in order to establish proper
* non-randomized mappings.
*/
if (current->flags & PF_RANDOMIZE)
load_bias = 0;
else
load_bias = ELF_PAGESTART(ELF_ET_DYN_BASE - vaddr);
#else
load_bias = ELF_PAGESTART(ELF_ET_DYN_BASE - vaddr);
#endif
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