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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/binfmt_elf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/binfmt_elf.c | 25 |
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) { |