[PATCH] binfmt_flat: Fix corruption when not offsetting data start

Stefan O'Rear sorear at fastmail.com
Mon Mar 25 20:20:37 PDT 2024


Commit 04d82a6d0881 ("binfmt_flat: allow not offsetting data start")
introduced a RISC-V specific variant of the FLAT format which does not
allocate any space for the (obsolescent) array of shared library
pointers. However, it did not disable the code which initializes the
array, resulting in the corruption of sizeof(long) bytes before the DATA
segment, generally the end of the TEXT segment.

Use CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET to guard initialization the
shared library pointer region so that it will only be initialized if
space is reserved for it.

Fixes: 04d82a6d0881 ("binfmt_flat: allow not offsetting data start")
Signed-off-by: Stefan O'Rear <sorear at fastmail.com>
Tested-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx at openadk.org>
---
 fs/binfmt_flat.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_flat.c b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
index c26545d71d39..70c2b68988f4 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_flat.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
@@ -879,6 +879,7 @@ static int load_flat_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 	if (res < 0)
 		return res;
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET
 	/* Update data segment pointers for all libraries */
 	for (i = 0; i < MAX_SHARED_LIBS; i++) {
 		if (!libinfo.lib_list[i].loaded)
@@ -893,6 +894,7 @@ static int load_flat_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 				return -EFAULT;
 		}
 	}
+#endif
 
 	set_binfmt(&flat_format);
 
-- 
2.40.1




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