Resource limit test

Michael Meskes (meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
Mon, 8 Jul 1996 20:35:39 +0200 (MET DST)

Here's my patch to make binfmt_elf test the datasize before starting a
binary. It just returns ENOMEM for those binaries that would core dump
because of missing memory anyway. But I prefer to get an error message over
a core dump if possible.

Michael

--- /usr/src/linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c.old Wed Jun 12 10:09:48 1996
+++ /usr/src/linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c Mon Jul 8 20:32:06 1996
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
* Tools".
*
* Copyright 1993, 1994: Eric Youngdale (ericy@cais.com).
+ * Added resource limits check: Michael Meskes (meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
*/

#include <linux/module.h>
@@ -351,8 +352,9 @@
unsigned int elf_entry, interp_load_addr = 0;
int status;
unsigned int start_code, end_code, end_data;
- unsigned int elf_stack;
+ unsigned int elf_stack, datasize;
char passed_fileno[6];
+ unsigned long rlim;

ibcs2_interpreter = 0;
status = 0;
@@ -515,6 +517,24 @@
return -E2BIG;
}
}
+
+ /* MM: Check if we extend resource limits */
+ /* Algorithm proposed by Richard Henderson <rth@tamu.edu> */
+ rlim = current->rlim[RLIMIT_DATA].rlim_cur;
+ if (rlim >= RLIM_INFINITY)
+ rlim = ~0;
+ elf_ppnt = elf_phdata;
+ datasize = 0;
+ for(i=0;i < elf_ex.e_phnum; i++){
+ if(elf_ppnt->p_flags & PF_W) {
+ unsigned long new_data_size = datasize + elf_ppnt->p_memsz;
+ if (new_data_size > rlim || new_data_size < datasize)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ datasize = new_data_size;
+ }
+ elf_ppnt++;
+ }
+ /* MM: End */

/* OK, This is the point of no return */
flush_old_exec(bprm);

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