From 6de505173e24e76bb33a2595312e0c2b44d49e58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "akpm@osdl.org" Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:29:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] binfmt_elf bss padding fix Nir Tzachar points out that if an ELF file specifies a zero-length bss at a whacky address, we cannot load that binary because padzero() tries to zero out the end of the page at the whacky address, and that may not be writeable. See also http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5411 So teach load_elf_binary() to skip the bss settng altogether if the elf file has a zero-length bss segment. Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index 7976a238f0a3..d4b15576e584 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm * bprm, struct pt_regs * regs) send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0); goto out_free_dentry; } - if (padzero(elf_bss)) { + if (likely(elf_bss != elf_brk) && unlikely(padzero(elf_bss))) { send_sig(SIGSEGV, current, 0); retval = -EFAULT; /* Nobody gets to see this, but.. */ goto out_free_dentry;