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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:32:17 +0100
From: "Abel Bernabeu" <abelbg@m2grp.com>
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Subject: Re: [Patch] Elf loader crash while zero-filling .bss
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2008/2/11, Abel Bernabeu <abelbg@m2grp.com>:
> I've finally found a solution for the crash in load_binary_elf I
> reported last week:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/30/171
>
> The attached patch solves my problem, but please test it yourself...
>
> set_brk(start, end) allocs just page aligned regions (by "colapsing"
> both extremes to the start of the page in which they lay)... That
> means than even if both pointers are not equal there are still some
> chances that set_brk has allocated no space at all because
> ELF_PAGEALIGN(elf_bss) != ELF_PAGEALIGN(elf_brk).

Sorry this was an errata in my comment:  no space is allocated at all
because ELF_PAGEALIGN(elf_bss) == ELF_PAGEALIGN(elf_brk)
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