From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 09/10] x86, mpx: cleanup unused bound tables
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:57:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A886A0.1010508@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403084656-27284-10-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
On 06/18/2014 02:44 AM, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
> When user memory region is unmapped, related bound tables
> become unused and need to be released also. This patch cleanups
> these unused bound tables through hooking unmap path.
This is not a full review at all -- I don't understand the mm stuff well
enough.
> +
> + /*
> + * If this bounds directory entry is nonzero, and meanwhile
> + * the valid bit is zero, one SIGSEGV will be produced due to
> + * this unexpected situation.
> + */
> + if (!(*valid) && *bt_addr)
> + force_sig(SIGSEGV, current);
force_sig from a syscall handler seems rather weird.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-23 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-18 9:44 [PATCH v6 00/10] Intel MPX support Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 01/10] x86, mpx: introduce VM_MPX to indicate that a VMA is MPX specific Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 02/10] x86, mpx: add MPX specific mmap interface Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-23 19:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 19:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 20:03 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 20:03 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 20:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 20:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 20:28 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 20:28 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 21:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 21:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-24 5:53 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-24 5:53 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-24 23:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-24 23:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 1:40 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-25 1:40 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-25 21:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 21:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 21:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 21:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 21:45 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-25 21:45 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-26 22:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-26 22:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-26 22:58 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-26 22:58 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-26 23:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-26 23:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-27 0:19 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 0:19 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 0:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-27 0:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-27 17:34 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 17:34 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 17:42 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 17:42 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 18:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-27 18:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 21:43 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-25 21:43 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-24 2:53 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-24 2:53 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 03/10] x86, mpx: add macro cpu_has_mpx Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 9:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-18 14:35 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 14:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-18 14:58 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 15:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-18 16:17 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 15:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-18 15:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-18 14:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-18 16:25 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 17:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-19 18:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-19 18:50 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-20 3:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 04/10] x86, mpx: hook #BR exception handler to allocate bound tables Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-23 19:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-24 1:53 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-07-11 16:23 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 05/10] x86, mpx: extend siginfo structure to include bound violation information Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 06/10] mips: sync struct siginfo with general version Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 07/10] x86, mpx: decode MPX instruction to get bound violation information Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 10:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-19 1:13 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-19 6:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-19 6:53 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-19 17:04 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-19 17:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-20 3:21 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 08/10] x86, mpx: add prctl commands PR_MPX_REGISTER, PR_MPX_UNREGISTER Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-19 20:58 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 20:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 20:09 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 22:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 23:42 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-24 0:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-24 0:10 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 09/10] x86, mpx: cleanup unused bound tables Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-23 19:57 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 10/10] x86, mpx: add documentation on Intel MPX Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 14:41 ` [PATCH v6 00/10] Intel MPX support Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 14:41 ` Dave Hansen
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