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SubjectRe: revert PIE randomization?
FromDavid Woodhouse <>
DateSun, 07 Jan 2007 06:42:12 +0800
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 20:11 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> And I notice that Andi added a personality & ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE check
> into randomize_stack_top: I cannot see why that's necessary there,
> but if it is, then should the ET_DYN case add it too?)
While I think of it... it seems that ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE isn't "inherited"
across exec of 32-bit binaries on x86_64 or ppc64. The personality flags
get wiped out when we detect a 32-bit ELF executable and set the
personality to PER_LINUX32.

This causes suboptimal behaviour from userspace code which checks
whether it can set ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE with a sys_personality() call, and
if so re-execs itself. Run on x86_64 or ppc64, these go into an endless
loop because it always gets cleared in the exec.

I've seen such code in two places recently (Macaulay2 and sbcl, iirc).

-- 
dwmw2

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