On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 5:21 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's all about updating read only pages that are executable with a shadow mm. Right. And it doesn't actually need the mm at all, all it wants is the kernel page tables. Which is why all the "dup_mmap()" stuff seems so wrong. I suspect mm_alloc() does everything that VM actually needs. IOW, it shouldn't have used the fork() helper, it should have used the execve() helper that actually starts out from a clean slate. Because a clean slate is exactly what that code wants. No? Linus