lib/enable_execute_stack.c

/* ===-- enable_execute_stack.c - Implement __enable_execute_stack ---------===
 *
 *                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
 *
 * This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
 * License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
 *
 * ===----------------------------------------------------------------------===
 */

#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#ifndef __APPLE__
#include <unistd.h>
#endif


/*
 * The compiler generates calls to __enable_execute_stack() when creating 
 * trampoline functions on the stack for use with nested functions.
 * It is expected to mark the page(s) containing the address 
 * and the next 48 bytes as executable.  Since the stack is normally rw-
 * that means changing the protection on those page(s) to rwx. 
 */

void __enable_execute_stack(void* addr)
{
#if __APPLE__
	/* On Darwin, pagesize is always 4096 bytes */
	const uintptr_t pageSize = 4096;
#else
        /* FIXME: We should have a configure check for this. */
        const uintptr_t pageSize = getpagesize();
#endif
	const uintptr_t pageAlignMask = ~(pageSize-1);
	uintptr_t p = (uintptr_t)addr;
	unsigned char* startPage = (unsigned char*)(p & pageAlignMask);
	unsigned char* endPage = (unsigned char*)((p+48+pageSize) & pageAlignMask);
	size_t length = endPage - startPage;
	(void) mprotect((void *)startPage, length, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC);
}