[PATCH 2/4] arm64: Reduce ELF_ET_DYN_BASE

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Jun 22 2017 - 14:07:00 EST


Now that explicitly executed loaders are loaded in the mmap region,
position PIE binaries lower in the address space to avoid possible
collisions with mmap or stack regions. For 64-bit, align to 4GB to
allow runtimes to use the entire 32-bit address space for 32-bit
pointers.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h | 13 ++++++-------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
index 5d1700425efe..f742af8f7c42 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -113,12 +113,13 @@
#define ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE PAGE_SIZE

/*
- * This is the location that an ET_DYN program is loaded if exec'ed. Typical
- * use of this is to invoke "./ld.so someprog" to test out a new version of
- * the loader. We need to make sure that it is out of the way of the program
- * that it will "exec", and that there is sufficient room for the brk.
+ * This is the base location for PIE (ET_DYN with INTERP) loads. On
+ * 64-bit, this is raised to 4GB to leave the entire 32-bit address
+ * space open for things that want to use the area for 32-bit pointers.
*/
-#define ELF_ET_DYN_BASE (2 * TASK_SIZE_64 / 3)
+#define ELF_ET_DYN_BASE (test_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT) ? \
+ 0x000400000UL : \
+ 0x100000000UL)

#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__

@@ -173,8 +174,6 @@ extern int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm,

#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT

-#define COMPAT_ELF_ET_DYN_BASE (2 * TASK_SIZE_32 / 3)
-
/* AArch32 registers. */
#define COMPAT_ELF_NGREG 18
typedef unsigned int compat_elf_greg_t;
--
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