Re: [PATCH v1 0/7] Remove in-tree usage of MAP_DENYWRITE

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On 12.08.21 20:10, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 7:48 AM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Given that MAP_PRIVATE for shared libraries is our strategy for handling
writes to shared libraries perhaps we just need to use MAP_POPULATE or a
new related flag (perhaps MAP_PRIVATE_NOW)

No. That would be horrible for the usual bloated GUI libraries. It
might help some (dynamic page faults are not cheap either), but it
would hurt a lot.

Right, we most certainly don't want to waste system ram / swap space, memory for page tables, and degrade performance just because some corner-case nasty user space could harm itself.


This is definitely a "if you overwrite a system library while it's
being used, you get to keep both pieces" situation.

Right, play stupid games, win stupid prices. I agree that if there would be an efficient way to detect+handle such overwrites gracefully, it would be great to have the kernel support that. ETXTBUSY as implemented with this series (but also before this series) is really only a minimalistic approach to help detect some issues regarding the main executable.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb




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