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From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, jannh@google.com,
	sroettger@google.com, adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org,
	ojeda@kernel.org, adobriyan@gmail.com,
	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	jeffxu@chromium.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	jorgelo@chromium.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] binfmt_elf: seal address zero
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 09:59:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <172365478431.4159848.371478248517217096.b4-ty@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240806214931.2198172-1-jeffxu@google.com>

On Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:49:26 +0000, jeffxu@chromium.org wrote:
> From: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@chromium.org>
> 
> In load_elf_binary as part of the execve(),  when the current
> task’s personality has MMAP_PAGE_ZERO set, the kernel allocates
> one page at address 0. According to the comment:
> 
> /* Why this, you ask???  Well SVr4 maps page 0 as read-only,
>     and some applications "depend" upon this behavior.
>     Since we do not have the power to recompile these, we
>      emulate the SVr4 behavior. Sigh. */
> 
> [...]

I added the cover letter details to the commit log and changed pr_warn()
to pr_warn_ratelimited(), but otherwise, looked good.

Applied to for-next/execve, thanks!

[1/1] binfmt_elf: mseal address zero
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/44f65d900698

Take care,

-- 
Kees Cook



       reply	other threads:[~2024-08-14 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20240806214931.2198172-1-jeffxu@google.com>
2024-08-14 16:59 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2024-12-03 14:13   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-12-14  0:56     ` Kees Cook
     [not found] ` <20240806214931.2198172-2-jeffxu@google.com>
2024-12-04 18:04   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] binfmt_elf: mseal " Petr Tesařík
2024-12-04 18:15     ` Jeff Xu

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