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From: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Qing Wang <wangqing7171@gmail.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzbot+3b5dd2030fe08afdf65d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_close
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:16:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aaG1Yl-HbPG3Buil@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260227101002.614add75@gandalf.local.home>

On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 10:10:02AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:41:17 +0000
> Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Hum, not sure this is entirely correct. We do set VM_DONTCOPY when creating the
> > > mapping (see __rb_map_vma). So AFAICT ->open() is not called in this situation (see
> > > dup_mmap())  
> > 
> > Ah right, Syzkaller is using madvise(MADVISE_DOFORK) which resets VM_DONTCOPY.
> 
> Hmm,
> 
> So this means user space can override the DONTCOPY? Can this cause bugs
> elsewhere that DONTCOPY is used?

Indeed, user space can clear DONTCOPY... unless we also set VM_IO. 

> 
> -- Steve

      reply	other threads:[~2026-02-27 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-27  2:58 [PATCH] tracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_close Qing Wang
2026-02-27 10:02 ` Vincent Donnefort
2026-02-27 10:41   ` Vincent Donnefort
2026-02-27 11:22     ` Vincent Donnefort
2026-02-27 15:20       ` Steven Rostedt
2026-02-27 20:56         ` Steven Rostedt
2026-03-02 12:13           ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-03-02 16:52             ` Steven Rostedt
2026-03-03 10:19               ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-03-03 15:25                 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-03-04 17:30                   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-02-28  8:59       ` Qing Wang
2026-02-27 15:10     ` Steven Rostedt
2026-02-27 15:16       ` Vincent Donnefort [this message]

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