Break ELF_PLATFORM and stack pointer randomization dependency
authorFranck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:24 +0000 (23:30 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:43:01 +0000 (08:43 -0700)
commitd68c9d6ae8f1fdae7d998158adc5ee106a2f8ce6
tree91f1aef562d7769d06453e9a60ef599bcb057ba0
parent96358de6bc2ab0bc5e8b44a8f3be4c9bf4a14e4f
Break ELF_PLATFORM and stack pointer randomization dependency

Currently arch_align_stack() is used by fs/binfmt_elf.c to randomize
stack pointer inside a page. But this happens only if ELF_PLATFORM
symbol is defined.

ELF_PLATFORM is normally set if the architecture wants ld.so to load
implementation specific libraries for optimization. And currently a
lot of architectures just yield this symbol to NULL.

This is the case for MIPS architecture where ELF_PLATFORM is NULL but
arch_align_stack() has been redefined to do stack inside page
randomization. So in this case no randomization is actually done.

This patch breaks this dependency which seems to be useless and allows
platforms such MIPS to do the randomization.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/binfmt_elf.c