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From: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: brendanhiggins@google.com, trishalfonso@google.com,
	linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] um: Fix overlapping ELF segments when statically linked
Date: Thu,  5 Mar 2020 10:39:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200305183939.256241-1-davidgow@google.com> (raw)

When statically linked, the .text section in UML kernels is not page
aligned, causing it to share a page with the executable headers. As
.text and the executable headers have different permissions, this causes
the kernel to wish to map the same page twice (once as headers with r--
permissions, once as .text with r-x permissions), causing a segfault,
and a nasty message printed to the host kernel's dmesg:

"Uhuuh, elf segment at 0000000060000000 requested but the memory is
mapped already"

By aligning the .text to a page boundary (as in the dynamically linked
version in dyn.lds.S), there is no such overlap, and the kernel runs
correctly.

Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
---
I'm not 100% sure what triggered this -- possibly a change to the host
kernel on my machine -- as I'm able to reproduce the issue as far back
as in 4.4, but it seems to be reproducible easily on my machine with
defconfig + CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y.


 arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S b/arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S
index 9f21443be2c9..3b6dab3d4501 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ SECTIONS
   __binary_start = START;
 
   . = START + SIZEOF_HEADERS;
+  . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 
   _text = .;
   INIT_TEXT_SECTION(0)
-  . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 
   .text      :
   {
-- 
2.25.0.265.gbab2e86ba0-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2020-03-05 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-05 18:39 David Gow [this message]
2020-03-10 21:24 ` Brendan Higgins
2020-03-29 21:38   ` Richard Weinberger

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