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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2022-03-03 22:55:12 +0300
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2022-03-03 22:55:12 +0300
commit80901bff812984624918d9d03f9286e3245ee9a5 (patch)
tree945b0f2416cb904e5a178f2d099958b510ed1d56 /fs/binfmt_elf.c
parent25bf4df4d18b4546a5821d77b5fac149a3a4961f (diff)
parentb949c21fc23ecaccef89582f251e6281cad1f81e (diff)
downloadlinux-80901bff812984624918d9d03f9286e3245ee9a5.tar.xz
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c commit 690bb6fb64f5 ("batman-adv: Request iflink once in batadv-on-batadv check") commit 6ee3c393eeb7 ("batman-adv: Demote batadv-on-batadv skip error message") https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220302163049.101957-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de/ net/smc/af_smc.c commit 4d08b7b57ece ("net/smc: Fix cleanup when register ULP fails") commit 462791bbfa35 ("net/smc: add sysctl interface for SMC") https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220302112209.355def40@canb.auug.org.au/ Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/binfmt_elf.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/binfmt_elf.c25
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 9e11e6f13e83..d61543fbd652 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1135,14 +1135,25 @@ out_free_interp:
* is then page aligned.
*/
load_bias = ELF_PAGESTART(load_bias - vaddr);
- }
- /*
- * Calculate the entire size of the ELF mapping (total_size).
- * (Note that load_addr_set is set to true later once the
- * initial mapping is performed.)
- */
- if (!load_addr_set) {
+ /*
+ * Calculate the entire size of the ELF mapping
+ * (total_size), used for the initial mapping,
+ * due to load_addr_set which is set to true later
+ * once the initial mapping is performed.
+ *
+ * Note that this is only sensible when the LOAD
+ * segments are contiguous (or overlapping). If
+ * used for LOADs that are far apart, this would
+ * cause the holes between LOADs to be mapped,
+ * running the risk of having the mapping fail,
+ * as it would be larger than the ELF file itself.
+ *
+ * As a result, only ET_DYN does this, since
+ * some ET_EXEC (e.g. ia64) may have large virtual
+ * memory holes between LOADs.
+ *
+ */
total_size = total_mapping_size(elf_phdata,
elf_ex->e_phnum);
if (!total_size) {