From: Jiri Kosina Randomize the location of the heap (brk) for i386 and x86_64. The range is randomized in the range starting at current brk location up to 0x02000000 offset for both architectures. This, together with pie-executable-randomization.patch and pie-executable-randomization-fix.patch, should make the address space randomization on i386 and x86_64 complete. Arjan says: This is known to break older versions of some emacs variants, whose dumper code assumed that the last variable declared in the program is equal to the start of the dynamically allocated memory region. (The dumper is the code where emacs effectively dumps core at the end of it's compilation stage; this coredump is then loaded as the main program during normal use) iirc this was 5 years or so; we found this way back when I was at RH and we first did the security stuff there (including this brk randomization). It wasn't all variants of emacs, and it got fixed as a result (I vaguely remember that emacs already had code to deal with it for other archs/oses, just ifdeffed wrongly). It's a rare and wrong assumption as a general thing, just on x86 it mostly happened to be true (but to be honest, it'll break too if gcc does something fancy or if the linker does a non-standard order). Still its something we should at least document. Note 2: afaik it only broke the emacs *build*. I'm not 100% sure about that (it IS 5 years ago) though. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/i386/kernel/process.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ fs/binfmt_elf.c | 7 +++++++ 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/process.c~i386-and-x86_64-randomize-brk arch/i386/kernel/process.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c~i386-and-x86_64-randomize-brk +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c @@ -973,3 +973,17 @@ unsigned long arch_align_stack(unsigned sp -= get_random_int() % 8192; return sp & ~0xf; } + +unsigned long arch_randomize_brk(unsigned long brk) +{ + unsigned long new_brk; + unsigned long range_end; + + range_end = brk + 0x02000000; + new_brk = randomize_range(brk, range_end, 0); + if (new_brk) + return new_brk; + else + return brk; +} + diff -puN arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c~i386-and-x86_64-randomize-brk arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c~i386-and-x86_64-randomize-brk +++ a/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c @@ -905,3 +905,17 @@ unsigned long arch_align_stack(unsigned sp -= get_random_int() % 8192; return sp & ~0xf; } + +unsigned long arch_randomize_brk(unsigned long brk) +{ + unsigned long new_brk; + unsigned long range_end; + + range_end = brk + 0x02000000; + new_brk = randomize_range(brk, range_end, 0); + if (new_brk) + return new_brk; + else + return brk; +} + diff -puN fs/binfmt_elf.c~i386-and-x86_64-randomize-brk fs/binfmt_elf.c --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c~i386-and-x86_64-randomize-brk +++ a/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_ static int load_elf_library(struct file *); static unsigned long elf_map (struct file *, unsigned long, struct elf_phdr *, int, int, unsigned long); +/* overriden by architectures supporting brk randomization */ +unsigned long __weak arch_randomize_brk(unsigned long brk) { return brk; } + /* * If we don't support core dumping, then supply a NULL so we * don't even try. @@ -1081,6 +1084,10 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_ current->mm->end_data = end_data; current->mm->start_stack = bprm->p; + if (current->flags & PF_RANDOMIZE) + current->mm->brk = current->mm->start_brk = + arch_randomize_brk(current->mm->brk); + if (current->personality & MMAP_PAGE_ZERO) { /* Why this, you ask??? Well SVr4 maps page 0 as read-only, and some applications "depend" upon this behavior. _