Re: ARM FDPIC_FUNCPTRS personality flag handling looks broken

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, Jann Horn wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Tavis noticed that on ARM kernels with CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF_FDPIC, it
> looks like the FDPIC_FUNCPTRS personality flag is not reset on
> execve(). This would mean that if a process first executes an ELF
> FDPIC binary (which forces the personality to PER_LINUX_FDPIC), and
> then executes a non-FDPIC binary, the signal handling code
> (setup_return()) will have bogus behavior (interpreting a normal
> function pointer as an FDPIC function handle).
> 
> I think FDPIC_FUNCPTRS should probably either be reset on every
> execve() or not be a personality flag at all (since AFAIU pretty much
> the whole point of personality flags is that they control behavior
> even across execve()).

I think you're right. This is probably true for SH as well.
I'd recommend the former solution as being the least intrusive one.


Nicolas