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linux-user: Don't use MAP_FIXED in do_brk()
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Since mmap() with MAP_FIXED will map over the top of existing mappings,
it's a bad idea to use it to implement brk(), because brk() with a
large size is likely to overwrite important things like qemu itself
or the host libc. So we drop MAP_FIXED and handle "mapped but at
different address" as an error case instead.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <[email protected]>
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pm215 authored and suihkulokki committed Jun 21, 2011
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29 changes: 20 additions & 9 deletions linux-user/syscall.c
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Expand Up @@ -735,23 +735,34 @@ abi_long do_brk(abi_ulong new_brk)
return target_brk;
}

/* We need to allocate more memory after the brk... */
/* We need to allocate more memory after the brk... Note that
* we don't use MAP_FIXED because that will map over the top of
* any existing mapping (like the one with the host libc or qemu
* itself); instead we treat "mapped but at wrong address" as
* a failure and unmap again.
*/
new_alloc_size = HOST_PAGE_ALIGN(new_brk - brk_page + 1);
mapped_addr = get_errno(target_mmap(brk_page, new_alloc_size,
PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_ANON|MAP_FIXED|MAP_PRIVATE, 0, 0));
MAP_ANON|MAP_PRIVATE, 0, 0));

if (mapped_addr == brk_page) {
target_brk = new_brk;
return target_brk;
} else if (mapped_addr != -1) {
/* Mapped but at wrong address, meaning there wasn't actually
* enough space for this brk.
*/
target_munmap(mapped_addr, new_alloc_size);
mapped_addr = -1;
}

#if defined(TARGET_ALPHA)
/* We (partially) emulate OSF/1 on Alpha, which requires we
return a proper errno, not an unchanged brk value. */
if (is_error(mapped_addr)) {
return -TARGET_ENOMEM;
}
return -TARGET_ENOMEM;
#endif

if (!is_error(mapped_addr)) {
target_brk = new_brk;
}
/* For everything else, return the previous break. */
return target_brk;
}

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