On 26/03/2015 10:48, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>> +#define __HAVE_ARCH_REMAP
>>>> +static inline void arch_remap(struct mm_struct *mm,
>>>> + unsigned long old_start, unsigned long old_end,
>>>> + unsigned long new_start, unsigned long new_end)
>>>> +{
>>>> + /*
>>>> + * mremap() doesn't allow moving multiple vmas so we can limit the
>>>> + * check to old_start == vdso_base.
>>>> + */
>>>> + if (old_start == mm->context.vdso_base)
>>>> + mm->context.vdso_base = new_start;
>>>> +}
>>>
>>> mremap() doesn't allow moving multiple vmas, but it allows the
>>> movement of multi-page vmas and it also allows partial mremap()s,
>>> where it will split up a vma.
>>>
>>> In particular, what happens if an mremap() is done with
>>> old_start == vdso_base, but a shorter end than the end of the vDSO?
>>> (i.e. a partial mremap() with fewer pages than the vDSO size)
>>
>> Is there a way to forbid splitting ? Does x86 deal with that case at
>> all or it doesn't have to for some other reason ?
>
> So we use _install_special_mapping() - maybe PowerPC does that too?
> That adds VM_DONTEXPAND which ought to prevent some - but not all - of
> the VM API weirdnesses.
The same is done on PowerPC. So calling mremap() to extend the vDSO is
failing but splitting it or unmapping a part of it is allowed but lead
to an unusable vDSO.
> On x86 we'll just dump core if someone unmaps the vdso.
On PowerPC, you'll get the same result.
Should we prevent the user to break its vDSO ?
Thanks,
Laurent.
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