Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user/mmap.c: Avoid choosing NULL as start address

[Maximilian Riemensberger]

On 06.01.18 18:00, Maximilian Riemensberger wrote:
> mmap() is required by the linux kernel ABI and POSIX to return a
> non-NULL address when the implementation chooses a start address for the
> mapping.
> 
> The current implementation of mmap_find_vma_reserved() can return NULL
> as start address of a mapping which leads to subsequent crashes inside
> the guests glibc, e.g. output of qemu-arm-static --strace executing a
> test binary stx_test:
> 
>     1879 
> mmap2(NULL,8388608,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|0x20000,-1,0)
>  = 0x00000000
>     1879 write(2,0xf6fd39d0,79) stx_test: allocatestack.c:514: 
> allocate_stack: Assertion `mem != NULL' failed.
> 
> This patch fixes mmap_find_vma_reserved() by skipping NULL as start
> address while searching for a suitable mapping start address.

I should have added:

Fixes: 59e9d91c7ae1b655997aec61c08eec1685414117 ("linux-user: resolve 
reserved_va vma downwards")

Cheers,
        Max

> 
> CC: Riku Voipio <address@hidden>
> CC: Laurent Vivier <address@hidden>
> CC: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Maximilian Riemensberger <address@hidden>
> ---
>  linux-user/mmap.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/linux-user/mmap.c b/linux-user/mmap.c
> index 4888f53..20cc5a7 100644
> --- a/linux-user/mmap.c
> +++ b/linux-user/mmap.c
> @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ static abi_ulong mmap_find_vma_reserved(abi_ulong start, 
> abi_ulong size)
>      addr = end_addr - qemu_host_page_size;
>  
>      while (1) {
> -        if (addr > end_addr) {
> +        if (!addr || addr > end_addr) {
>              if (looped) {
>                  return (abi_ulong)-1;
>              }
> 

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