Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:09:13 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: brk randomization breaks columns |
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* Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> > > > > brk: check the lower bound properly > > > > There is a check in sys_brk(), that tries to make sure that we do not > > underflow the area that is dedicated to brk heap. > > > > The check is however wrong, as it assumes that brk area starts immediately > > after the end of the code (+bss), which is wrong for example in > > environments with randomized brk start. The proper way is to check whether > > the address is not below the start_brk address. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> > > ACK.
actually, does the patch above from Jiri solve the problem with your 11 year old binaries too? (Sorry if it has been mentioned elsewhere, i could not decode it from this thread.)
Ingo
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