* Saidi, Ali <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3/27/19, 2:52 PM, "linux-arm-kernel on behalf of Kees Cook" 
> <[email protected] on behalf of 
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>     Adding some more people to CC... what do people think about this
>     moving of the brk to ELF_ET_DYN_BASE in this corner-case? Anything
>     that worked before should still work (i.e. the ultimately-launched
>     binary already had the brk very far from its text, so this should be
>     no different from a COMPAT_BRK standpoint). The only risk I see here
>     is that if someone started to suddenly depend on the entire memory
>     space above the mmap region being available when launching binaries
>     via a direct loader execs... which seems highly unlikely, I'd hope:
>     this would mean a binary would not work when execed normally.
> 
> Kees' proposal addresses the issue for me. Anyone have concerns on this 
> proposed solution?

I'd suggest incorporating all feedback and sending a v2 series - it's 
much easier to get people's attention via code submitted. ;-)

Thanks,

        Ingo

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