Re: [PATCH v6] powerpc: Do not make the entire heap executable

From	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v6] powerpc: Do not make the entire heap executable
Date	2016-10-25 01:20 +0200
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:54:12AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>> > Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> writes:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> wrote:
>> >>> On 32-bit powerpc the ELF PLT sections of binaries (built with --bss-plt,
>> >>> or with a toolchain which defaults to it) look like this:
>> > ...
>> >>>
>> >>> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
>> >>> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
>> >>> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>> >>> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
>> >>> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
>> >>> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
>> >>> CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> >>> CC: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>> >>> CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
>> >>> CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
>> >>> CC: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
>> >>> CC: linux-mm@kvack.org
>> >>> CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
>> >>> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>> >>> Changes since v5:
>> >>> * made do_brk_flags() error out if any bits other than VM_EXEC are set.
>> >>>   (Kees Cook: "With this, I'd be happy to Ack.")
>> >>>   See https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/661595/
>> >>
>> >> Excellent, thanks for the v6! Should this go via the ppc tree or the -mm tree?
>> >
>> > -mm would be best, given the diffstat I think it's less likely to
>> >  conflict if it goes via -mm.
>>
>> Okay, excellent. Andrew, do you have this already in email? I think
>> you weren't on the explicit CC from the v6...
>
> FWIW (and ping),
>
> Tested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
>
> On ARM32 (kirkwood) and PPC32 (405)
>
> For reference, here is the patchwork URL:
>
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/677753/

Hi Andrew,

Can you pick this up?

Thanks!

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Nexus Security

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Re: [PATCH v6] powerpc: Do not make the entire heap executable Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-21 00:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v6] powerpc: Do not make the entire heap executable Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-10-25 01:20 +0200

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