When allocating the pages for bss the start address needs to be rounded down instead of up. Otherwise the start of the bss segment may be unmapped.
The was reported to happen on Aarch64:
Memory allocated by set_brk(): Before: start=0x420000 end=0x420000 After: start=0x41f000 end=0x420000
The triggering binary looks like this:
Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file) Entry point 0x400144 There are 4 program headers, starting at offset 64
Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align LOAD 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000400000 0x0000000000400000 0x0000000000000178 0x0000000000000178 R E 0x10000 LOAD 0x000000000000ffe8 0x000000000041ffe8 0x000000000041ffe8 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000008 RW 0x10000 NOTE 0x0000000000000120 0x0000000000400120 0x0000000000400120 0x0000000000000024 0x0000000000000024 R 0x4 GNU_STACK 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 RW 0x10
Section to Segment mapping: Segment Sections... 00 .note.gnu.build-id .text .eh_frame 01 .bss 02 .note.gnu.build-id 03
Reported-by: Sebastian Ott sebott@redhat.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5d49767a-fbdc-fbe7-5fb2-d99ece3168cb@redhat.com... Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh linux@weissschuh.net ---
I'm not really familiar with the ELF loading process, so putting this out as RFC.
A example binary compiled with aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc 13.2.0 is available at https://test.t-8ch.de/binfmt-bss-repro.bin --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index 7b3d2d491407..4008a57d388b 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static struct linux_binfmt elf_format = {
static int set_brk(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int prot) { - start = ELF_PAGEALIGN(start); + start = ELF_PAGESTART(start); end = ELF_PAGEALIGN(end); if (end > start) { /*
--- base-commit: aed8aee11130a954356200afa3f1b8753e8a9482 change-id: 20230914-bss-alloc-f523fa61718c
Best regards,