def allocate_stack(size=DEFAULT_STACK_SIZE): """Allocate some memory that can be used as a stack. @return: a ctypes void pointer to the *top* of the stack. """ # Allocate memory with appropriate flags for a stack as in https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a85c8ba7 base = libc.mmap( None, size + GUARD_PAGE_SIZE, libc.PROT_READ | libc.PROT_WRITE, libc.MAP_PRIVATE | libc.MAP_ANONYMOUS | libc.MAP_GROWSDOWN | libc.MAP_STACK, -1, 0) try: # create a guard page that crashes the application when it is written to (on stack overflow) libc.mprotect(base, GUARD_PAGE_SIZE, libc.PROT_NONE) yield ctypes.c_void_p(base + size + GUARD_PAGE_SIZE) finally: libc.munmap(base, size + GUARD_PAGE_SIZE)