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-rw-r--r--src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c4
-rw-r--r--src/common/exec.c33
-rw-r--r--src/include/pg_config.h.in3
-rw-r--r--src/include/port.h5
-rw-r--r--src/test/regress/pg_regress.c4
-rw-r--r--src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm1
6 files changed, 50 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
index 4986c8f5177..070072299f1 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
@@ -451,6 +451,10 @@ start_postmaster(void)
fflush(stdout);
fflush(stderr);
+#ifdef EXEC_BACKEND
+ pg_disable_aslr();
+#endif
+
pm_pid = fork();
if (pm_pid < 0)
{
diff --git a/src/common/exec.c b/src/common/exec.c
index 9428b7393c2..95ef13c322d 100644
--- a/src/common/exec.c
+++ b/src/common/exec.c
@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>
+#ifdef EXEC_BACKEND
+#if defined(HAVE_SYS_PERSONALITY_H)
+#include <sys/personality.h>
+#elif defined(HAVE_SYS_PROCCTL_H)
+#include <sys/procctl.h>
+#endif
+#endif
+
/*
* Hacky solution to allow expressing both frontend and backend error reports
* in one macro call. First argument of log_error is an errcode() call of
@@ -470,6 +478,31 @@ set_pglocale_pgservice(const char *argv0, const char *app)
}
}
+#ifdef EXEC_BACKEND
+/*
+ * For the benefit of PostgreSQL developers testing EXEC_BACKEND on Unix
+ * systems (code paths normally exercised only on Windows), provide a way to
+ * disable address space layout randomization, if we know how on this platform.
+ * Otherwise, backends may fail to attach to shared memory at the fixed address
+ * chosen by the postmaster. (See also the macOS-specific hack in
+ * sysv_shmem.c.)
+ */
+int
+pg_disable_aslr(void)
+{
+#if defined(HAVE_SYS_PERSONALITY_H)
+ return personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE);
+#elif defined(HAVE_SYS_PROCCTL_H) && defined(PROC_ASLR_FORCE_DISABLE)
+ int data = PROC_ASLR_FORCE_DISABLE;
+
+ return procctl(P_PID, 0, PROC_ASLR_CTL, &data);
+#else
+ errno = ENOSYS;
+ return -1;
+#endif
+}
+#endif
+
#ifdef WIN32
/*
diff --git a/src/include/pg_config.h.in b/src/include/pg_config.h.in
index 7525c165974..9d9bd6b9efc 100644
--- a/src/include/pg_config.h.in
+++ b/src/include/pg_config.h.in
@@ -614,6 +614,9 @@
/* Define to 1 if you have the <sys/ipc.h> header file. */
#undef HAVE_SYS_IPC_H
+/* Define to 1 if you have the <sys/personality.h> header file. */
+#undef HAVE_SYS_PERSONALITY_H
+
/* Define to 1 if you have the <sys/prctl.h> header file. */
#undef HAVE_SYS_PRCTL_H
diff --git a/src/include/port.h b/src/include/port.h
index 22ea292a6df..56e3721f6a4 100644
--- a/src/include/port.h
+++ b/src/include/port.h
@@ -140,6 +140,11 @@ extern char *pipe_read_line(char *cmd, char *line, int maxsize);
/* Doesn't belong here, but this is used with find_other_exec(), so... */
#define PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR "postgres (PostgreSQL) " PG_VERSION "\n"
+#ifdef EXEC_BACKEND
+/* Disable ASLR before exec, for developer builds only (in exec.c) */
+extern int pg_disable_aslr(void);
+#endif
+
#if defined(WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
#define EXE ".exe"
diff --git a/src/test/regress/pg_regress.c b/src/test/regress/pg_regress.c
index a34efed095c..cc311dba4c5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/pg_regress.c
+++ b/src/test/regress/pg_regress.c
@@ -1104,6 +1104,10 @@ spawn_process(const char *cmdline)
if (logfile)
fflush(logfile);
+#ifdef EXEC_BACKEND
+ pg_disable_aslr();
+#endif
+
pid = fork();
if (pid == -1)
{
diff --git a/src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm b/src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm
index 734d8e073fa..e47c2d648cb 100644
--- a/src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm
+++ b/src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm
@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ sub GenerateFiles
HAVE_SYS_EPOLL_H => undef,
HAVE_SYS_EVENT_H => undef,
HAVE_SYS_IPC_H => undef,
+ HAVE_SYS_PERSONALITY_H => undef,
HAVE_SYS_PRCTL_H => undef,
HAVE_SYS_PROCCTL_H => undef,
HAVE_SYS_PSTAT_H => undef,