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Message-ID: <20160310191103.GO9349@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:11:03 -0500 From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: Memory management, how to protect some address space. On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 09:02:04PM +0200, John Found wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:45:15 -0500 > Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote: > > > This is not musl-specific; Linux always does that for 32-bit x86 > > binaries running on a 64-bit kernel. You can either run on a 32-bit > > kernel or set the ADDR_LIMIT_3GB personality() flag when running your > > program. Assuming part of the address space is not used is not a > > portable assumption to make, though. > > > > Rich > > Thanks! The sys_personality is exactly what I needed. I simply was > not aware of this function. Unfortunately the documentation is very > poor and when testing it, I have some issues, both with MUSL and > Linux. > > 1. It seems to be MUSL problem - after setting the personality, the first > several memory allocations from MUSL's malloc function still return addresses > outside the 3GB range. After that it starts to allocate proper addresses. > The count of the "bad" allocations depends on the size of the allocated blocks. > > Is it a bug, or I must call some MUSL re-initialization function? > > BTW, this behaviour is not observed with glibc. > > 2. The stack of the application remains allocated above 3GB space. It seems to be > Linux issue, but I still will appreciate some help. The proper way to use personality() is before exec'ing your program. The stack address and some spare memory that musl re-uses as heap get assigned at exec time before you can do anything within your program to prevent that from happening. In theory that could happen with glibc too; if it doesn't you're just getting lucky. Rich
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