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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.org>,
	Eric Youngdale <ericy@cais.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stronger ELF sanity checks v2
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:08:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040116160841.GA302@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040113033234.GD2000@vitelus.com>

Hi!

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 02:55:07AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > Here's the second version of my patch to add better sanity checks for
> > binfmt_elf
> 
> I assume this breaks Brian Raiter's tiny ELF executables[1]. Even
> though these binaries are evil hacks that don't comply to standards
> and serve no serious purpose, I'm not sure what the purpose of the
> sanity checks is. Are there any risks associated with running
> non-compliant ELF executables? (Now that I mention it, the

You get vy ugly behaviour. If you compile executable with huge static
data, it will compile okay, link okay, *launch okay* and die on
segfault. That's wrong, it should have died on -ENOMEM during exec.
								Pavel

-- 
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-16 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-13  1:55 [PATCH] stronger ELF sanity checks v2 Jesper Juhl
2004-01-13  3:32 ` Aaron Lehmann
2004-01-13 10:39   ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-16 16:08   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-01-16 19:55     ` Jesse Pollard
2004-01-16 21:36       ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-13 17:35 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-01-13 19:54   ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-15  7:43     ` Ulrich Drepper
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     [not found] ` <1dAQW-109-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <1dCSg-5vk-55@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <1eaqw-6Dk-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-01-15 13:13       ` Pascal Schmidt

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