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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/mm: Fix ELF_ET_DYN_BASE for 5-level paging
On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> On machines with 5-level paging we don't want to allocate mapping above
> 47-bit unless user explicitly asked for it. See b569bab78d8d ("x86/mm:
> Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace") for details.
>
> c715b72c1ba4 ("mm: revert x86_64 and arm64 ELF_ET_DYN_BASE base
> changes") broke the behaviour. After the commit elf binary and heap got
> mapped above 47-bits.
>
> Let's fix this.

That's a really useless sentence.....

> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Fixes: c715b72c1ba4 ("mm: revert x86_64 and arm64 ELF_ET_DYN_BASE base changes")
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
> index c1a125e47ff3..3a091cea36c5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
> @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ extern int force_personality32;
> * space open for things that want to use the area for 32-bit pointers.
> */
> #define ELF_ET_DYN_BASE (mmap_is_ia32() ? 0x000400000UL : \
> - (TASK_SIZE / 3 * 2))
> + (DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW / 3 * 2))
>
> /* This yields a mask that user programs can use to figure out what
> instruction set this CPU supports. This could be done in user space,
> --
> 2.14.2
>
>

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