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From: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
To: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net>
Cc: ericvh <ericvh@gmail.com>, lucho <lucho@ionkov.net>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	v9fs-developer <v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [V9fs-developer] [RFC PATCH] 9p: create writeback fid on shared mmap
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 12:24:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201207112410.GA26628@nautica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1763bcb5b8e.da1e98e51195.9022463261101254548@mykernel.net>

Chengguang Xu wrote on Mon, Dec 07, 2020:
>  > , VM_MAYWRITE is set anytime we have a shared map where file has
>  > been opened read-write, which seems to be what you want with regards to
>  > protecting from mprotect calls.
>  > 
>  > How about simply changing check from WRITE to MAYWRITE?
> 
> It would be fine and based on the code in do_mmap(), it  seems we even don't
> need extra check here.  The condition (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) will be enough.
> Am I missing something?

VM_MAYWRITE is unset if the file hasn't been open for writing (in which
case the mapping can't be mprotect()ed to writable map), so checking it
is a bit more efficient.

Anyway I'd like to obsolete the writeback fid uses now that fids have a
refcount (this usecase can be a simple refcount increase), in which case
efficiency is less of a problem, but we're not there yet...

Please resend with MAYWRITE if you want authorship and I'll try to take
some time to test incl. the mprotect usecase.

-- 
Dominique

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20201205130904.518104-1-cgxu519@mykernel.net>
2020-12-06  9:16 ` [RFC PATCH] 9p: create writeback fid on shared mmap Dominique Martinet
2020-12-06 20:53   ` [V9fs-developer] " Dominique Martinet
2020-12-07  6:02     ` Chengguang Xu
2020-12-07 11:24       ` Dominique Martinet [this message]
2020-12-07 13:13         ` Chengguang Xu

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