[PATCH v1] Arm64: ASLR: fix text randomization

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Oct 8 04:21:55 PDT 2014


On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 07:51:54AM +0100, Arun Chandran wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
> > I wasn't able to spot where the randomness came from in the
> > ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE case, so it's not clear to me if the
> > generic implementation behaves identically other than disabling
> > randomization when told to via proc.
> 
> I also don't know from where it is coming; but it works on arm and x86 :)

The randomness will come from elf_map, since that will descend into the mmap
code and end up with a randomised base address (see mmap_base and
arch_pick_mmap_layout).

Will



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