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SubjectRe: [PATCH] i386 and x86_64: randomize brk()
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:05:01 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:

> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
>
> i386 and x86_64: randomize brk()
>
> This patch randomizes the location of the heap (brk) for i386 and x86_64.
> The range is randomized in the range starting at current brk location up
> to 0x02000000 offset on both architectures. This, together with
> pie-executable-randomization.patch and
> pie-executable-randomization-fix.patch, should make the address space
> randomization on i386 and x86_64 complete (modulo vDSO randomization).
>
> The code is based on execshield code written by Ingo Molnar.

My main concern right now is to try to stabilise the rc3-mm1 mess, so I
think I'll duck this for now.

> +#ifdef ARCH_HAS_RANDOMIZE_BRK
> + if (current->flags & PF_RANDOMIZE)
> + arch_randomize_brk();
> +#endif

erk, please no.

It'd be better to put

static inline void arch_randomize_brk(void)
{
}

into all the other architecture's elf.h, then lose all the ifdefs.


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