Re: brk randomization breaks columns

[Ingo Molnar]

* Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > 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 <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> 
> 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.)

	Ingo
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