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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MAP_FIXED for ELF mappings
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 18:33:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171005163320.GA20848@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171004151700.k4fvivvmi7pm5sl7@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On 10/04, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> On Wed 04-10-17 23:12:38, Baoquan He wrote:
> >  	if (total_size) {
> >  		total_size = ELF_PAGEALIGN(total_size);
> > -		map_addr = vm_mmap(filep, addr, total_size, prot, flags, off);
> > -		if (!BAD_ADDR(map_addr))
> > -			vm_munmap(map_addr+size, total_size-size);
> > -	} else
> > -		map_addr = vm_mmap(filep, addr, size, prot, flags, off);
> > +		addr = get_unmapped_area(file, addr, total_size, off, flags);
>
> So how does this prevent clobbering an existing VMA when flags contains
> MAP_FIXED?

I got lost...

this is just cleanup, it should not change the behaviour, with or without
MAP_FIXED. It just avoids the mmap(total_size) + munmap(extra_size).

Oleg.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-05 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-04  7:50 MAP_FIXED for ELF mappings Michal Hocko
2017-10-04  7:59 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-04 15:03 ` Baoquan He
2017-10-04 15:11   ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-04 15:12   ` Baoquan He
2017-10-04 15:17     ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-04 15:37       ` Baoquan He
2017-10-04 17:12         ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-04 17:15           ` Linus Torvalds
2017-10-04 17:28             ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-05 16:33       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2017-10-05 16:42         ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-16 13:44 ` [PATCH 0/2] fs, elf: get rid of MAP_FIXED from the loader Michal Hocko
2017-10-16 13:44   ` [PATCH 1/2] fs, elf: drop MAP_FIXED usage from elf_map Michal Hocko
2017-10-16 16:39     ` Kees Cook
2017-10-16 19:00       ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-16 20:02         ` James Hogan
2017-10-17  7:37           ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-17  8:35             ` James Hogan
2017-10-17  8:56               ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-17 12:26     ` Baoquan He
2017-10-17 12:56       ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-17 13:22         ` Baoquan He
2017-10-17 13:33           ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-17 13:42             ` Baoquan He
2017-10-16 13:44   ` [PATCH 2/2] fs, elf: drop MAP_FIXED from initial ET_DYN segment Michal Hocko
2017-10-16 16:44     ` Kees Cook
2017-10-16 18:43       ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-16 19:38         ` Kees Cook
2017-10-17  9:04           ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-17 20:01             ` Kees Cook
2017-10-19 11:20               ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-19 17:19                 ` Kees Cook
2017-10-20  8:45                   ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-20 14:12                     ` Kees Cook

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