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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] prctl: Add PR_ codes to restore vDSO and tune up mm_struct entires
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:56:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111128225606.GD3858@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111124120051.GV1820@moon>

Hello, Cyrill.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 04:00:51PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> +		case PR_SETUP_VDSO_AT:
> +			if (arg3 | arg4 | arg5)
> +				return -EINVAL;
> +
> +			if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> +				return -EPERM;
> +
> +#ifdef ARCH_HAS_SETUP_ADDITIONAL_PAGES
> +			error = arch_setup_additional_pages_at((void *)arg2);
> +#else
> +			error = -ENOSYS;
> +#endif
> +			break;

Hmmm... I'm not sure this is the best approach.  vdso is supposed to
be able to be dependent on binprm too, so the proposed solution could
work but I'm not sure whether it's a good one.  For now, can't we just
copy the vdso and unmap it at the orignal address?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-28 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-24 12:00 [RFC] prctl: Add PR_ codes to restore vDSO and tune up mm_struct entires Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-11-28 22:56 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2011-11-29  6:19   ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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