From 341c87bf346f57748230628c5ad6ee69219250e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:41:23 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jakub Jelinek Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs') 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; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2