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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2009-06-30 11:41:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-30 18:55:59 -0700
commit341c87bf346f57748230628c5ad6ee69219250e8 (patch)
tree93937b91c3680127e38a310d5679b9ca84067b04 /fs
parentb1cfebc9231a69d46d66982a2c856ba41ef6d6b9 (diff)
elf: limit max map count to safe value
With ELF, at generating coredump, some more headers other than used vmas are added. When max_map_count == 65536, a core generated by following kinds of code can be unreadable because the number of ELF's program header is written in 16bit in Ehdr (please see elf.h) and the number overflows. == ... = mmap(); (munmap, mprotect, etc...) if (failed) abort(); == This can happen in mmap/munmap/mprotect/etc...which calls split_vma(). I think 65536 is not safe as _default_ and reduce it to 65530 is good for avoiding unexpected corrupted core. Anyway, max_map_count can be enlarged by sysctl if a user is brave.. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/binfmt_elf.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 9fa212b014a..f1867900e45 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1929,7 +1929,10 @@ static int elf_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs *regs, struct file *file, un
elf = kmalloc(sizeof(*elf), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!elf)
goto out;
-
+ /*
+ * The number of segs are recored into ELF header as 16bit value.
+ * Please check DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT definition when you modify here.
+ */
segs = current->mm->map_count;
#ifdef ELF_CORE_EXTRA_PHDRS
segs += ELF_CORE_EXTRA_PHDRS;