[PATCH v4 1/2] binfmt_flat: allow not offsetting data start

Damien Le Moal Damien.LeMoal at wdc.com
Thu Apr 22 13:00:32 BST 2021


On 2021/04/18 11:38, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17/4/21 2:54 pm, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> On 2021/04/17 13:52, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>>
>>> On 17/4/21 11:10 am, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>>> Commit 2217b9826246 ("binfmt_flat: revert "binfmt_flat: don't offset
>>>> the data start"") restored offsetting the start of the data section by
>>>> a number of words defined by MAX_SHARED_LIBS. As a result, since
>>>> MAX_SHARED_LIBS is never 0, a gap between the text and data sections
>>>> always exists. For architectures which cannot support a such gap
>>>> between the text and data sections (e.g. riscv nommu), flat binary
>>>> programs cannot be executed.
>>>>
>>>> To allow an architecture to request no data start offset to allow for
>>>> contiguous text and data sections for binaries flagged with
>>>> FLAT_FLAG_RAM, introduce the new config option
>>>> CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET. Using this new option, the
>>>> macro DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS is conditionally defined in binfmt_flat.c
>>>> to MAX_SHARED_LIBS for architectures tolerating or needing the data
>>>> start offset (CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET disabled case)
>>>> and to 0 when CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET is enabled.
>>>> DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS is used in load_flat_file() to calculate the
>>>> data section length and start position.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal at wdc.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    fs/Kconfig.binfmt |  3 +++
>>>>    fs/binfmt_flat.c  | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
>>>>    2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
>>>> index c6f1c8c1934e..06fb7a93a1bd 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
>>>> +++ b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
>>>> @@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ config BINFMT_FLAT_ARGVP_ENVP_ON_STACK
>>>>    config BINFMT_FLAT_OLD_ALWAYS_RAM
>>>>    	bool
>>>>    
>>>> +config BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET
>>>> +	bool
>>>> +
>>>>    config BINFMT_FLAT_OLD
>>>>    	bool "Enable support for very old legacy flat binaries"
>>>>    	depends on BINFMT_FLAT
>>>> diff --git a/fs/binfmt_flat.c b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
>>>> index b9c658e0548e..1dc68dfba3e0 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/binfmt_flat.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
>>>> @@ -74,6 +74,12 @@
>>>>    #define	MAX_SHARED_LIBS			(1)
>>>>    #endif
>>>>    
>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET
>>>> +#define DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS		(0)
>>>> +#else
>>>> +#define DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS		(MAX_SHARED_LIBS)
>>>> +#endif
>>>> +
>>>>    struct lib_info {
>>>>    	struct {
>>>>    		unsigned long start_code;		/* Start of text segment */
>>>> @@ -560,6 +566,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>>>    	 * it all together.
>>>>    	 */
>>>>    	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MMU) && !(flags & (FLAT_FLAG_RAM|FLAT_FLAG_GZIP))) {
>>>> +
>>>
>>> Random white space change...
>>> Don't worry about re-spinning though, I will just edit this chunk out.
>>
>> Oops. Sorry about that. I should have better checked :)
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>    		/*
>>>>    		 * this should give us a ROM ptr,  but if it doesn't we don't
>>>>    		 * really care
>>>> @@ -576,7 +583,8 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>>>    			goto err;
>>>>    		}
>>>>    
>>>> -		len = data_len + extra + MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(unsigned long);
>>>> +		len = data_len + extra +
>>>> +			DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(unsigned long);
>>>>    		len = PAGE_ALIGN(len);
>>>>    		realdatastart = vm_mmap(NULL, 0, len,
>>>>    			PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 0);
>>>> @@ -591,7 +599,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>>>    			goto err;
>>>>    		}
>>>>    		datapos = ALIGN(realdatastart +
>>>> -				MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(unsigned long),
>>>> +				DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(unsigned long),
>>>>    				FLAT_DATA_ALIGN);
>>>>    
>>>>    		pr_debug("Allocated data+bss+stack (%u bytes): %lx\n",
>>>> @@ -622,7 +630,8 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>>>    		memp_size = len;
>>>>    	} else {
>>>>    
>>>> -		len = text_len + data_len + extra + MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(u32);
>>>> +		len = text_len + data_len + extra +
>>>> +			DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(u32);
>>>>    		len = PAGE_ALIGN(len);
>>>>    		textpos = vm_mmap(NULL, 0, len,
>>>>    			PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 0);
>>>> @@ -638,7 +647,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>>>    
>>>>    		realdatastart = textpos + ntohl(hdr->data_start);
>>>>    		datapos = ALIGN(realdatastart +
>>>> -				MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(u32),
>>>> +				DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(u32),
>>>>    				FLAT_DATA_ALIGN);
>>>>    
>>>>    		reloc = (__be32 __user *)
>>>> @@ -714,7 +723,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>>>    			ret = result;
>>>>    			pr_err("Unable to read code+data+bss, errno %d\n", ret);
>>>>    			vm_munmap(textpos, text_len + data_len + extra +
>>>> -				MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(u32));
>>>> +				  DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(u32));
>>>>    			goto err;
>>>>    		}
>>>>    	}
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, otherwise looks good.
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg at linux-m68k.org>
>>>
>>> I will push this into my m68knommu tree, for-next branch.
>>> I just carry the flat format changes in that tree now to make my life easier.
>>
>> Great. Thanks !
>> Are you taking both patches or should Plamer take the riscv Kconfig change
>> through his tree ?
> 
> I am happy to take both.
> Palmer?

Palmer,

Ping !


-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research



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