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| author | Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> | 2006-02-26 04:18:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-02-26 09:53:30 -0800 |
| commit | 5342fba5412cead88b61ead07168615dbeba1ee3 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ec0936cff22284b2226f431033b1a36b27615c7 /fs | |
| parent | f83f2b5fbab4585f4de4523c7879d60e3f85a248 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-5342fba5412cead88b61ead07168615dbeba1ee3.tar.gz lwn-5342fba5412cead88b61ead07168615dbeba1ee3.zip | |
[PATCH] x86_64: Check for bad elf entry address.
Fixes a local DOS on Intel systems that lead to an endless
recursive fault. AMD machines don't seem to be affected.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/binfmt_elf.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index 1b117a441298..c2eac2a50bd2 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -938,6 +938,11 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm * bprm, struct pt_regs * regs) kfree(elf_interpreter); } else { elf_entry = loc->elf_ex.e_entry; + if (BAD_ADDR(elf_entry)) { + send_sig(SIGSEGV, current, 0); + retval = -ENOEXEC; /* Nobody gets to see this, but.. */ + goto out_free_dentry; + } } kfree(elf_phdata); |