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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ericy@cais.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanity checking
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:15:36 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040109041536.GB25504@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040108192021.6c2aea60.akpm@osdl.org>


> I've always had little confidence in the elf loader.  The problem is
> complex, the code quality is not high and the consequences of an error are
> severe.

One thing I noticed is that we only obey execute permission on load
sections. On ppc32 the PLT is in the bss area and must be executable:

[27] .sbss             PROGBITS        100ba10c 0aa10c 000a14 00  WA 0   0  8
[28] .plt              PROGBITS        100bab20 0aab20 000834 00 WAX 0   0  4  
[29] .bss              NOBITS          100bb358 0ab354 003f90 00  WA 0   0  8

When I did per page execute for ppc64 we fell apart because the current
elf loader just creates a single region of non executable memory
regardless of what the binary asks for.

Anton

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-09  4:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-09  2:19 Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09  2:27 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09  3:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-09  3:36   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-09  3:40     ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09 20:20       ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2004-01-09 20:41         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-10  0:27           ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-10  2:27             ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2004-01-10  9:52               ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-10 13:41         ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-10 22:38           ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2004-01-10 22:45             ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-10 14:05         ` Willy Tarreau
2004-01-22 19:24         ` [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanitychecking Adrian Bunk
2004-01-09  3:36   ` [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanity checking Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09  4:15   ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2004-01-09 10:28 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-01-09 10:50   ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09 18:08     ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-09 18:25       ` Jesper Juhl

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