ACK/Cmt: [SRU Mantic 0/1] LP: #1983357 - 32-bit ASLR

Roxana Nicolescu roxana.nicolescu at canonical.com
Fri Jan 26 10:04:37 UTC 2024


On 25/01/2024 02:40, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> [Impact]
> 32-bit programs on x86 are not mapped randomly anymore since mmapped files are
> now PMD-aligned.
>
> [Test case]
> aslr32 libs from qa-regression-testing was tested.
>
> [Potential regression]
> Programs may fail to load or to allocate memory or access mmapped
> databases, and others.
>
> [Extra testing]
> This was boot tested on x86, demonstrating that programs necessary to boot
> still work. Also, a 32-bit program allocating 2GiB succeeded.
>
>
> Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (1):
>    UBUNTU: [Config]: set ARCH_MMAP_RND_{COMPAT_, }BITS to the maximum
>
>   debian.master/config/annotations | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by: Roxana Nicolescu <roxana.nicolescu at canonical.com>



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