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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
Cc: adeos-main <adeos-main@gna.org>, Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
Subject: Re: [Adeos-main] [PATCH] ipipe: Prevent unwritable pages after mprotect
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:55:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E16F032.1050905@domain.hid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E160578.5020405@domain.hid>

On 07/07/2011 09:14 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
> 
> Page protection changes issued via mprotect, e.g. to enable executable
> stacks, cause spurious minor faults as they remove the write permission
> from the modified range again. Avoid this by faking shared pages so that
> vm_get_page_prot returns the desired page permissions.

This looks dangerous to me. Have you checked that write to private heaps
will not end up corrupting shared data?

-- 
					    Gilles.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-08 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-07 19:14 [Adeos-main] [PATCH] ipipe: Prevent unwritable pages after mprotect Jan Kiszka
2011-07-08 11:55 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix [this message]
2011-07-08 12:15   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-12  6:48     ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2011-07-12  7:15       ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-27 18:41         ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2011-07-28 16:26           ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-28 16:28             ` Jan Kiszka

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