Re: [PATCH] ELF: implement AT_RANDOM for future glibc use

From: Jakub Jelinek
Date: Thu Oct 02 2008 - 20:44:27 EST


On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 05:16:16PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> @@ -196,6 +198,18 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct elfhdr *exec,
> return -EFAULT;
> }
>
> + rand_size = CONFIG_SECURITY_AUXV_RANDOM_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned long);

I believe you want sizeof (elf_addr_t) here instead.

> + u_rand_bytes = NULL;
> + if (rand_size) {
> + unsigned char k_rand_bytes[CONFIG_SECURITY_AUXV_RANDOM_SIZE *
> + sizeof(unsigned long)];

And here too, because having a 64-bit kernel supply twice as much random
data to 32-bit programs as a 32-bit kernel would supply would be certainly
unexpected.

Jakub
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