Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] binfmt_elf_fdpic: Stop using dump_emit() on user pointers on !MMU

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On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 12:48 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:49:50PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> > dump_emit() is for kernel pointers, and VMAs describe userspace memory.
> > Let's be tidy here and avoid accessing userspace pointers under KERNEL_DS,
> > even if it probably doesn't matter much on !MMU systems - especially given
> > that it looks like we can just use the same get_dump_page() as on MMU if
> > we move it out of the CONFIG_MMU block.
>
> Looks sensible.  Did you get a chance to test this with a nommu setup?

Nope. Do you happen to have a recommendation for a convenient
environment I can use with QEMU, or something like that? I'm guessing
that just running a standard armel Debian userspace with a !mmu ARM
kernel wouldn't work so well?



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