From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
To: gerg@linux-m68k.org
Cc: Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>,
uclinux-dev@uclinux.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@wdc.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] binfmt_flat: allow not offsetting data start
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 23:44:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mhng-7ec86909-1d6f-4cb8-b5f3-02f21cc6d904@palmerdabbelt-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1faaadb-8ba5-6cff-4bba-928141936040@linux-m68k.org>
On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 22:38:36 PDT (-0700), gerg@linux-m68k.org wrote:
>
>
> On 23/4/21 2:04 pm, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 05:00:32 PDT (-0700), Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>>> On 2021/04/18 11:38, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 17/4/21 2:54 pm, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>>>> On 2021/04/17 13:52, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 17/4/21 11:10 am, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>>>>>> Commit 2217b9826246 ("binfmt_flat: revert "binfmt_flat: don't offset
>>>>>>> the data start"") restored offsetting the start of the data section by
>>>>>>> a number of words defined by MAX_SHARED_LIBS. As a result, since
>>>>>>> MAX_SHARED_LIBS is never 0, a gap between the text and data sections
>>>>>>> always exists. For architectures which cannot support a such gap
>>>>>>> between the text and data sections (e.g. riscv nommu), flat binary
>>>>>>> programs cannot be executed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To allow an architecture to request no data start offset to allow for
>>>>>>> contiguous text and data sections for binaries flagged with
>>>>>>> FLAT_FLAG_RAM, introduce the new config option
>>>>>>> CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET. Using this new option, the
>>>>>>> macro DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS is conditionally defined in binfmt_flat.c
>>>>>>> to MAX_SHARED_LIBS for architectures tolerating or needing the data
>>>>>>> start offset (CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET disabled case)
>>>>>>> and to 0 when CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET is enabled.
>>>>>>> DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS is used in load_flat_file() to calculate the
>>>>>>> data section length and start position.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> fs/Kconfig.binfmt | 3 +++
>>>>>>> fs/binfmt_flat.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
>>>>>>> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
>>>>>>> index c6f1c8c1934e..06fb7a93a1bd 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
>>>>>>> +++ b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
>>>>>>> @@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ config BINFMT_FLAT_ARGVP_ENVP_ON_STACK
>>>>>>> config BINFMT_FLAT_OLD_ALWAYS_RAM
>>>>>>> bool
>>>>>>> +config BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET
>>>>>>> + bool
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> config BINFMT_FLAT_OLD
>>>>>>> bool "Enable support for very old legacy flat binaries"
>>>>>>> depends on BINFMT_FLAT
>>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/binfmt_flat.c b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
>>>>>>> index b9c658e0548e..1dc68dfba3e0 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/fs/binfmt_flat.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
>>>>>>> @@ -74,6 +74,12 @@
>>>>>>> #define MAX_SHARED_LIBS (1)
>>>>>>> #endif
>>>>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET
>>>>>>> +#define DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS (0)
>>>>>>> +#else
>>>>>>> +#define DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS (MAX_SHARED_LIBS)
>>>>>>> +#endif
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> struct lib_info {
>>>>>>> struct {
>>>>>>> unsigned long start_code; /* Start of text segment */
>>>>>>> @@ -560,6 +566,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>>>>>> * it all together.
>>>>>>> */
>>>>>>> if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MMU) && !(flags & (FLAT_FLAG_RAM|FLAT_FLAG_GZIP))) {
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Random white space change...
>>>>>> Don't worry about re-spinning though, I will just edit this chunk out.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oops. Sorry about that. I should have better checked :)
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /*
>>>>>>> * this should give us a ROM ptr, but if it doesn't we don't
>>>>>>> * really care
>>>>>>> @@ -576,7 +583,8 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>>>>>> goto err;
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>> - len = data_len + extra + MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(unsigned long);
>>>>>>> + len = data_len + extra +
>>>>>>> + DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(unsigned long);
>>>>>>> len = PAGE_ALIGN(len);
>>>>>>> realdatastart = vm_mmap(NULL, 0, len,
>>>>>>> PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 0);
>>>>>>> @@ -591,7 +599,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>>>>>> goto err;
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>> datapos = ALIGN(realdatastart +
>>>>>>> - MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(unsigned long),
>>>>>>> + DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(unsigned long),
>>>>>>> FLAT_DATA_ALIGN);
>>>>>>> pr_debug("Allocated data+bss+stack (%u bytes): %lx\n",
>>>>>>> @@ -622,7 +630,8 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>>>>>> memp_size = len;
>>>>>>> } else {
>>>>>>> - len = text_len + data_len + extra + MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(u32);
>>>>>>> + len = text_len + data_len + extra +
>>>>>>> + DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(u32);
>>>>>>> len = PAGE_ALIGN(len);
>>>>>>> textpos = vm_mmap(NULL, 0, len,
>>>>>>> PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 0);
>>>>>>> @@ -638,7 +647,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>>>>>> realdatastart = textpos + ntohl(hdr->data_start);
>>>>>>> datapos = ALIGN(realdatastart +
>>>>>>> - MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(u32),
>>>>>>> + DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(u32),
>>>>>>> FLAT_DATA_ALIGN);
>>>>>>> reloc = (__be32 __user *)
>>>>>>> @@ -714,7 +723,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>>>>>> ret = result;
>>>>>>> pr_err("Unable to read code+data+bss, errno %d\n", ret);
>>>>>>> vm_munmap(textpos, text_len + data_len + extra +
>>>>>>> - MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(u32));
>>>>>>> + DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(u32));
>>>>>>> goto err;
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, otherwise looks good.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will push this into my m68knommu tree, for-next branch.
>>>>>> I just carry the flat format changes in that tree now to make my life easier.
>>>>>
>>>>> Great. Thanks !
>>>>> Are you taking both patches or should Plamer take the riscv Kconfig change
>>>>> through his tree ?
>>>>
>>>> I am happy to take both.
>>>> Palmer?
>>>
>>> Palmer,
>>>
>>> Ping !
>>
>> I already Ack'd it, in the thread where we couldn't find the maintainer. Keeping these togther is fine with me, and it seems easiest.
>
> The 2/2 patch has been applied to the m68knommu git tree, for-next branch.
Thanks!
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-17 1:10 [PATCH v4 0/2] Fix binfmt_flat loader for RISC-V Damien Le Moal
2021-04-17 1:10 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] binfmt_flat: allow not offsetting data start Damien Le Moal
2021-04-17 4:52 ` Greg Ungerer
2021-04-17 4:54 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-04-18 2:38 ` Greg Ungerer
2021-04-22 12:00 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-04-23 4:04 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2021-04-23 5:38 ` Greg Ungerer
2021-04-23 6:44 ` Palmer Dabbelt [this message]
2021-04-17 1:10 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] riscv: Disable data start offset in flat binaries Damien Le Moal
2021-04-17 4:56 ` Greg Ungerer
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