Commit c1d025e2 authored by Jiri Kosina's avatar Jiri Kosina Committed by Linus Torvalds

binfmt_elf: PIE: make PF_RANDOMIZE check comment more accurate

The comment I originally added in commit a3defbe5 ("binfmt_elf: fix
PIE execution with randomization disabled") is not really 100% accurate
-- sysctl is not the only way how PF_RANDOMIZE could be forcibly unset
in runtime.

Another option of course is direct modification of personality flags
(i.e.  running through setarch wrapper).

Make the comment more explicit and accurate.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 2535e0d7
......@@ -803,7 +803,8 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
* follow the loader, and is not movable. */
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE
/* Memory randomization might have been switched off
* in runtime via sysctl.
* in runtime via sysctl or explicit setting of
* personality flags.
* If that is the case, retain the original non-zero
* load_bias value in order to establish proper
* non-randomized mappings.
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