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execve: Add guard pages around execve KVA buffers
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Authored by markj on Apr 29 2026, 3:07 PM.
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Summary

This helps ensure that overflows will trigger a panic instead of
silently corrupting adjacent buffers, as happened in SA-26:13.exec.

Extend kmap_alloc_wait() to support allocation of guard pages on both
sides of a KVA allocation. Modify the exec_map setup accordingly.

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markj requested review of this revision.Apr 29 2026, 3:07 PM
sys/vm/vm_init.c
277

I wonder if exec_map_guard_size should be allowed to set to 0. This might matter on 32bit arches.

sys/vm/vm_init.c
277

Or at least we could export exec_map_entr* as RO sysctls to get more visibility there.

markj marked 2 inline comments as done.

Add a tunable to control the number of guard pages

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 4 2026, 7:06 AM