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commit 3afb76a66b5559a7b595155803ce23801558a7a9 upstream. An ASLR regression was noticed [1] and tracked down to file-mapped areas being backed by THP in recent kernels. The 21-bit alignment constraint for such mappings reduces the entropy for randomizing the placement of 64-bit library mappings and breaks ASLR completely for 32-bit libraries. The reported issue is easily addressed by increasing vm.mmap_rnd_bits and vm.mmap_rnd_compat_bits. This patch just provides a simple way to set ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS and ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS to their maximum values allowed by the architecture at build time. [1] https://zolutal.github.io/aslrnt/ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: default to `y' if 32-bit, per Rafael] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240606180622.102099-1-aquini@redhat.com Fixes: 1854bc6e2420 ("mm/readahead: Align file mappings for non-DAX") Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.