Hi Laurent, Christophe, Michael, all,
On 11/3/20 5:11 PM, Laurent Dufour wrote:
Le 23/10/2020 à 14:28, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
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That seems like it would work for CRIU and make sense in general?
Sorry for the late answer, yes this would make more sense.
Here is a patch doing that.
In your patch, the test seems overkill:
+ if ((start <= vdso_base && vdso_end <= end) || /* 1 */ + (vdso_base <= start && start < vdso_end) || /* 3,4 */ + (vdso_base < end && end <= vdso_end)) /* 2,3 */ + mm->context.vdso_base = mm->context.vdso_end = 0;
What about
if (start < vdso_end && vdso_start < end) mm->context.vdso_base = mm->context.vdso_end = 0;
This should cover all cases, or am I missing something ?
And do we really need to store vdso_end in the context ? I think it should be possible to re-calculate it: the size of the VDSO should be (&vdso32_end - &vdso32_start) + PAGE_SIZE for 32 bits VDSO, and (&vdso64_end - &vdso64_start) + PAGE_SIZE for the 64 bits VDSO.
Thanks Christophe for the advise.
That is covering all the cases, and indeed is similar to the Michael's proposal I missed last year.
I'll send a patch fixing this issue following your proposal.
It's probably not necessary anymore. I've sent patches [1], currently in akpm, the last one forbids splitting of vm_special_mapping. So, a user is able munmap() or mremap() vdso as a whole, but not partly.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201013013416.390574-1-dima@arista.com/
Thanks, Dmitry