On Tue 2008-02-05 17:09:13, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > brk: check the lower bound properly > > > > > > There is a check in sys_brk(), that tries to make sure that we do not > > > underflow the area that is dedicated to brk heap. > > > > > > The check is however wrong, as it assumes that brk area starts > > > immediately > > > after the end of the code (+bss), which is wrong for example in > > > environments with randomized brk start. The proper way is to check > > > whether > > > the address is not below the start_brk address. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > ACK. > > actually, does the patch above from Jiri solve the problem with your 11 > year old binaries too? (Sorry if it has been mentioned elsewhere, i > could not decode it from this thread.)
No, it should just make the problem more obvious... -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
