On Fri, 4 May 2007 10:09:21 -0400
Quentin Godfroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On a dynamic ELF executable, the current kernel loader gives to the
> interpreter (in the AUXV vector) the AT_PHDR argument as :
> offset_of_phdr_in_file + first address.
> 
> It can be wrong for an executable where the program headers are not located 
> in the first loaded segment.
> 
> This patch corrects the behaviour.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Godfroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
>  Here is an example of such an ELF executable which the current code
>  fails on :
>  ftp://quatramaran.ens.fr/pub/godfroy/addrpath/broken-sample
> 
> --- linux-2.6.21.1/fs/binfmt_elf.c    2007-05-04 03:20:00.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.21.1-patch/fs/binfmt_elf.c      2007-05-04 08:02:18.000000000 
> -0400
> @@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ static int padzero(unsigned long elf_bss
>  static int
>  create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct elfhdr *exec,
>               int interp_aout, unsigned long load_addr,
> +             unsigned long phdr_addr,
>               unsigned long interp_load_addr)
>  {
>       unsigned long p = bprm->p;
> @@ -190,7 +191,7 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *b
>       NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_HWCAP, ELF_HWCAP);
>       NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PAGESZ, ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE);
>       NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_CLKTCK, CLOCKS_PER_SEC);
> -     NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PHDR, load_addr + exec->e_phoff);
> +     NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PHDR, phdr_addr);
>       NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PHENT, sizeof(struct elf_phdr));
>       NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PHNUM, exec->e_phnum);
>       NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_BASE, interp_load_addr);
> @@ -529,7 +530,7 @@ static unsigned long randomize_stack_top
>  static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct pt_regs *regs)
>  {
>       struct file *interpreter = NULL; /* to shut gcc up */
> -     unsigned long load_addr = 0, load_bias = 0;
> +     unsigned long load_addr = 0, load_bias = 0, phdr_addr = 0;
>       int load_addr_set = 0;
>       char * elf_interpreter = NULL;
>       unsigned int interpreter_type = INTERPRETER_NONE;
> @@ -718,6 +719,16 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_
>                       break;
>               }
>  
> +     elf_ppnt = elf_phdata;
> +     for (i = 0; i< loc->elf_ex.e_phnum; i++, elf_ppnt++)
> +             if (elf_ppnt->p_type == PT_PHDR) {
> +                     phdr_addr = elf_ppnt->p_vaddr;
> +                     break;
> +             }
> +     retval = -ENOEXEC;
> +     if (!phdr_addr)
> +             goto out_free_dentry;
> +
>       /* Some simple consistency checks for the interpreter */
>       if (elf_interpreter) {
>               interpreter_type = INTERPRETER_ELF | INTERPRETER_AOUT;
> @@ -987,7 +998,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_
>       current->flags &= ~PF_FORKNOEXEC;
>       create_elf_tables(bprm, &loc->elf_ex,
>                         (interpreter_type == INTERPRETER_AOUT),
> -                       load_addr, interp_load_addr);
> +                       load_addr, phdr_addr, interp_load_addr);
>       /* N.B. passed_fileno might not be initialized? */
>       if (interpreter_type == INTERPRETER_AOUT)
>               current->mm->arg_start += strlen(passed_fileno) + 1;

This patch kills my FC6 machine (using a config which was derived from RH's
original):

Freeing unused kernel memory: 368k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 959k
request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c


.config: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-akpm2.txt
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