commit 5f64df4bc3bc281f661d520773894c729c2b4835
author Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Thu Nov 17 12:58:20 2011 -0800
committer Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Fri Nov 18 10:07:12 2011 -0800
tree 2976c55910c4a2c3c8cdaa6b07d1de4d4401de5f
parent 7e2daefe6cec40e143f519c46aec877ee053b407

ASLR: enable pthread stack location randomization

Allow the kernel to choose a memory location to put the
thread stack, rather than hard coding 0x10000000

Change-Id: Ib1f37cf0273d4977e8d274fbdab9431ec1b7cb4f

libc/bionic/pthread.c

diff --git a/libc/bionic/pthread.c b/libc/bionic/pthread.c
index b56822f..f224c54 100644
--- a/libc/bionic/pthread.c
+++ b/libc/bionic/pthread.c
@@ -81,9 +81,6 @@
 #define PTHREAD_ATTR_FLAG_USER_STACK    0x00000002
 
 #define DEFAULT_STACKSIZE (1024 * 1024)
-#define STACKBASE 0x10000000
-
-static uint8_t * gStackBase = (uint8_t *)STACKBASE;
 
 static pthread_mutex_t mmap_lock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
 
@@ -252,7 +249,7 @@
 
     pthread_mutex_lock(&mmap_lock);
 
-    stack = mmap((void *)gStackBase, size,
+    stack = mmap(NULL, size,
                  PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                  MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE,
                  -1, 0);