Re: [PATCH] fs: heap/bss calculation ignore special section.

[Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>]

Andreas Dilger suggested that my previous email may be discarded due to my Sender Policy Framework (SPF) .
So I email this from different location, just in case.

Noam
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From: Noam Camus
Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 3:32 PM
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: vgupta@synopsys.com; Gilad Ben Yossef; Chris Metcalf; Noam Camus
Subject: [PATCH] fs: heap/bss calculation ignore special section.

From: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>

Today bss/heap is placed above last loaded sections.
However if STACK_TOP is not equal to TASK_SIZE we wish to ignore
such sections mapped to this gap between STACK_TOP and TASK_SIZE.
set_brk will never work for such case.

So at the moment this addition is just a sanity check.

An alternative (more complex):
Linux would make use of LMA field in ELF, then we can set VMA below
STACK_TOP and set LMA to be between STACK_TOP and TASK_SIZE to match
such special memory mapping.

Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
---
 fs/binfmt_elf.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 241ef68..09f9483 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -962,6 +962,9 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)

                k = elf_ppnt->p_vaddr + elf_ppnt->p_filesz;

+               if (k >= STACK_TOP)
+                       continue;
+
                if (k > elf_bss)
                        elf_bss = k;
                if ((elf_ppnt->p_flags & PF_X) && end_code < k)
--
1.7.1