Re: Fix handling of ELF segments with zero filesize

[Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:20:49AM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> Andrew, please apply
> 
> mmap() returns -EINVAL if given a zero length, and thus elf_map() in
> binfmt_elf.c does likewise if it attempts to map a (page-aligned) ELF
> segment with zero filesize.  Such a situation never arises with the
> default linker scripts, but there's nothing inherently wrong with
> zero-filesize (but non-zero memsize) ELF segments.  Custom linker
> scripts can generate them, and the kernel should be able to map them;
> this patch makes it so.

David, 2.4 has exactly the same code, do you see anything wrong with
applying this patch to 2.4 too ?

Thanks in advance,
Willy

> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> 
> Index: working-2.6/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> ===================================================================
> --- working-2.6.orig/fs/binfmt_elf.c	2005-11-23 15:56:30.000000000 +1100
> +++ working-2.6/fs/binfmt_elf.c	2005-12-01 11:11:01.000000000 +1100
> @@ -288,11 +288,17 @@ static unsigned long elf_map(struct file
>  			struct elf_phdr *eppnt, int prot, int type)
>  {
>  	unsigned long map_addr;
> +	unsigned long pageoffset = ELF_PAGEOFFSET(eppnt->p_vaddr);
>  
>  	down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
> -	map_addr = do_mmap(filep, ELF_PAGESTART(addr),
> -			   eppnt->p_filesz + ELF_PAGEOFFSET(eppnt->p_vaddr), prot, type,
> -			   eppnt->p_offset - ELF_PAGEOFFSET(eppnt->p_vaddr));
> +	/* mmap() will return -EINVAL if given a zero size, but a
> +	 * segment with zero filesize is perfectly valid */
> +	if (eppnt->p_filesz + pageoffset)
> +		map_addr = do_mmap(filep, ELF_PAGESTART(addr),
> +				   eppnt->p_filesz + pageoffset, prot, type,
> +				   eppnt->p_offset - pageoffset);
> +	else
> +		map_addr = ELF_PAGESTART(addr);
>  	up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
>  	return(map_addr);
>  }
> 
> -- 
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