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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/binfmt_elf.c, branch v3.3.5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsets</title>
<updated>2012-03-02T19:38:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-02T18:43:48+00:00</published>
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The regset common infrastructure assumed that regsets would always
have .get and .set methods, but not necessarily .active methods.
Unfortunately people have since written regsets without .set methods.

Rather than putting in stub functions everywhere, handle regsets with
null .get or .set methods explicitly.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@hack.frob.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The regset common infrastructure assumed that regsets would always
have .get and .set methods, but not necessarily .active methods.
Unfortunately people have since written regsets without .set methods.

Rather than putting in stub functions everywhere, handle regsets with
null .get or .set methods explicitly.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@hack.frob.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: binfmt_elf: create Kconfig variable for PIE randomization</title>
<updated>2012-01-11T00:30:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Daney</name>
<email>ddaney.cavm@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-10T23:10:21+00:00</published>
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Randomization of PIE load address is hard coded in binfmt_elf.c for X86
and ARM.  Create a new Kconfig variable
(CONFIG_ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE) for this and use it instead.  Thus
architecture specific policy is pushed out of the generic binfmt_elf.c and
into the architecture Kconfig files.

X86 and ARM Kconfigs are modified to select the new variable so there is
no change in behavior.  A follow on patch will select it for MIPS too.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Randomization of PIE load address is hard coded in binfmt_elf.c for X86
and ARM.  Create a new Kconfig variable
(CONFIG_ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE) for this and use it instead.  Thus
architecture specific policy is pushed out of the generic binfmt_elf.c and
into the architecture Kconfig files.

X86 and ARM Kconfigs are modified to select the new variable so there is
no change in behavior.  A follow on patch will select it for MIPS too.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>binfmt_elf: fix PIE execution with randomization disabled</title>
<updated>2011-11-02T23:06:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-02T20:37:41+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: H.J. Lu &lt;hongjiu.lu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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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 &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: H.J. Lu &lt;hongjiu.lu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>consolidate BINPRM_FLAGS_ENFORCE_NONDUMP handling</title>
<updated>2011-07-20T05:43:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-19T16:49:47+00:00</published>
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new helper: would_dump(bprm, file).  Checks if we are allowed to
read the file and if we are not - sets ENFORCE_NODUMP.  Exported,
used in places that previously open-coded the same logics.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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new helper: would_dump(bprm, file).  Checks if we are allowed to
read the file and if we are not - sets ENFORCE_NODUMP.  Exported,
used in places that previously open-coded the same logics.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>brk: COMPAT_BRK: fix detection of randomized brk</title>
<updated>2011-04-14T23:06:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-14T22:22:09+00:00</published>
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5520e89 ("brk: fix min_brk lower bound computation for COMPAT_BRK")
tried to get the whole logic of brk randomization for legacy
(libc5-based) applications finally right.

It turns out that the way to detect whether brk has actually been
randomized in the end or not introduced by that patch still doesn't work
for those binaries, as reported by Geert:

: /sbin/init from my old m68k ramdisk exists prematurely.
:
: Before the patch:
:
: | brk(0x80005c8e)                         = 0x80006000
:
: After the patch:
:
: | brk(0x80005c8e)                         = 0x80005c8e
:
: Old libc5 considers brk() to have failed if the return value is not
: identical to the requested value.

I don't like it, but currently see no better option than a bit flag in
task_struct to catch the CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK &amp;&amp; randomize_va_space == 2
case.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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5520e89 ("brk: fix min_brk lower bound computation for COMPAT_BRK")
tried to get the whole logic of brk randomization for legacy
(libc5-based) applications finally right.

It turns out that the way to detect whether brk has actually been
randomized in the end or not introduced by that patch still doesn't work
for those binaries, as reported by Geert:

: /sbin/init from my old m68k ramdisk exists prematurely.
:
: Before the patch:
:
: | brk(0x80005c8e)                         = 0x80006000
:
: After the patch:
:
: | brk(0x80005c8e)                         = 0x80005c8e
:
: Old libc5 considers brk() to have failed if the return value is not
: identical to the requested value.

I don't like it, but currently see no better option than a bit flag in
task_struct to catch the CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK &amp;&amp; randomize_va_space == 2
case.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-03-24T03:51:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-24T03:51:42+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  deal with races in /proc/*/{syscall,stack,personality}
  proc: enable writing to /proc/pid/mem
  proc: make check_mem_permission() return an mm_struct on success
  proc: hold cred_guard_mutex in check_mem_permission()
  proc: disable mem_write after exec
  mm: implement access_remote_vm
  mm: factor out main logic of access_process_vm
  mm: use mm_struct to resolve gate vma's in __get_user_pages
  mm: arch: rename in_gate_area_no_task to in_gate_area_no_mm
  mm: arch: make in_gate_area take an mm_struct instead of a task_struct
  mm: arch: make get_gate_vma take an mm_struct instead of a task_struct
  x86: mark associated mm when running a task in 32 bit compatibility mode
  x86: add context tag to mark mm when running a task in 32-bit compatibility mode
  auxv: require the target to be tracable (or yourself)
  close race in /proc/*/environ
  report errors in /proc/*/*map* sanely
  pagemap: close races with suid execve
  make sessionid permissions in /proc/*/task/* match those in /proc/*
  fix leaks in path_lookupat()

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/proc/base.c
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  deal with races in /proc/*/{syscall,stack,personality}
  proc: enable writing to /proc/pid/mem
  proc: make check_mem_permission() return an mm_struct on success
  proc: hold cred_guard_mutex in check_mem_permission()
  proc: disable mem_write after exec
  mm: implement access_remote_vm
  mm: factor out main logic of access_process_vm
  mm: use mm_struct to resolve gate vma's in __get_user_pages
  mm: arch: rename in_gate_area_no_task to in_gate_area_no_mm
  mm: arch: make in_gate_area take an mm_struct instead of a task_struct
  mm: arch: make get_gate_vma take an mm_struct instead of a task_struct
  x86: mark associated mm when running a task in 32 bit compatibility mode
  x86: add context tag to mark mm when running a task in 32-bit compatibility mode
  auxv: require the target to be tracable (or yourself)
  close race in /proc/*/environ
  report errors in /proc/*/*map* sanely
  pagemap: close races with suid execve
  make sessionid permissions in /proc/*/task/* match those in /proc/*
  fix leaks in path_lookupat()

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/proc/base.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: arch: make get_gate_vma take an mm_struct instead of a task_struct</title>
<updated>2011-03-23T20:36:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Wilson</name>
<email>wilsons@start.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-13T19:49:15+00:00</published>
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Morally, the presence of a gate vma is more an attribute of a particular mm than
a particular task.  Moreover, dropping the dependency on task_struct will help
make both existing and future operations on mm's more flexible and convenient.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson &lt;wilsons@start.ca&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Morally, the presence of a gate vma is more an attribute of a particular mm than
a particular task.  Moreover, dropping the dependency on task_struct will help
make both existing and future operations on mm's more flexible and convenient.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson &lt;wilsons@start.ca&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>binfmt_elf: quiet GCC-4.6 'set but not used' warning in load_elf_binary()</title>
<updated>2011-03-23T00:44:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Daney</name>
<email>ddaney@caviumnetworks.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-22T23:34:48+00:00</published>
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With GCC-4.6 we get warnings about things being 'set but not used'.

In load_elf_binary() this can happen with reloc_func_desc if ELF_PLAT_INIT
is defined, but doesn't use the reloc_func_desc argument.

Quiet the warning/error by marking reloc_func_desc as __maybe_unused.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;ddaney@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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With GCC-4.6 we get warnings about things being 'set but not used'.

In load_elf_binary() this can happen with reloc_func_desc if ELF_PLAT_INIT
is defined, but doesn't use the reloc_func_desc argument.

Quiet the warning/error by marking reloc_func_desc as __maybe_unused.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;ddaney@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>binfmt_elf: cleanups</title>
<updated>2011-01-13T16:03:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikael Pettersson</name>
<email>mikpe@it.uu.se</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-13T01:00:02+00:00</published>
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This cleans up a few bits in binfmt_elf.c and binfmts.h:

- the hasvdso field in struct linux_binfmt is unused, so remove it and
  the only initialization of it

- the elf_map CPP symbol is not defined anywhere in the kernel, so
  remove an unnecessary #ifndef elf_map

- reduce excessive indentation in elf_format's initializer

- add missing spaces, remove extraneous spaces

No functional changes, but tested on x86 (32 and 64 bit), powerpc (32 and
64 bit), sparc64, arm, and alpha.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson &lt;mikpe@it.uu.se&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This cleans up a few bits in binfmt_elf.c and binfmts.h:

- the hasvdso field in struct linux_binfmt is unused, so remove it and
  the only initialization of it

- the elf_map CPP symbol is not defined anywhere in the kernel, so
  remove an unnecessary #ifndef elf_map

- reduce excessive indentation in elf_format's initializer

- add missing spaces, remove extraneous spaces

No functional changes, but tested on x86 (32 and 64 bit), powerpc (32 and
64 bit), sparc64, arm, and alpha.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson &lt;mikpe@it.uu.se&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 6342/1: fix ASLR of PIE executables</title>
<updated>2010-10-08T09:02:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nico@fluxnic.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-20T20:14:46+00:00</published>
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Since commits 990cb8acf2 and cc92c28b2d, it is possible to have full
address space layout randomization (ASLR) on ARM.  Except that one small
change was missing for ASLR of PIE executables.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Since commits 990cb8acf2 and cc92c28b2d, it is possible to have full
address space layout randomization (ASLR) on ARM.  Except that one small
change was missing for ASLR of PIE executables.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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