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From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
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Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>,
Aurelien Jacquiot <jacquiot.aurelien@gmail.com>,
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Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] binfmt_elf_fdpic: Stop using dump_emit() on user pointers on !MMU
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 13:42:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG48ez3F70-UXwdHmO4CnR0bAForn-SBtstW5WAYjcrLFwS_9A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200505104805.GA17400@lst.de>
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 12:48 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:49:50PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> > dump_emit() is for kernel pointers, and VMAs describe userspace memory.
> > Let's be tidy here and avoid accessing userspace pointers under KERNEL_DS,
> > even if it probably doesn't matter much on !MMU systems - especially given
> > that it looks like we can just use the same get_dump_page() as on MMU if
> > we move it out of the CONFIG_MMU block.
>
> Looks sensible. Did you get a chance to test this with a nommu setup?
Nope. Do you happen to have a recommendation for a convenient
environment I can use with QEMU, or something like that? I'm guessing
that just running a standard armel Debian userspace with a !mmu ARM
kernel wouldn't work so well?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-05 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-29 21:49 [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix ELF / FDPIC ELF core dumping, and use mmap_sem properly in there Jann Horn
2020-04-29 21:49 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] binfmt_elf_fdpic: Stop using dump_emit() on user pointers on !MMU Jann Horn
2020-05-05 10:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-05 11:42 ` Jann Horn [this message]
2020-05-05 12:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-11 3:05 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-29 21:49 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] coredump: Let dump_emit() bail out on short writes Jann Horn
2020-04-29 21:49 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] coredump: Refactor page range dumping into common helper Jann Horn
2020-05-05 10:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-05 11:44 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-29 21:49 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] binfmt_elf, binfmt_elf_fdpic: Use a VMA list snapshot Jann Horn
2020-05-05 11:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-05 12:11 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-29 21:49 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] mm/gup: Take mmap_sem in get_dump_page() Jann Horn
2020-04-29 21:56 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix ELF / FDPIC ELF core dumping, and use mmap_sem properly in there Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-04-29 23:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-30 1:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2020-04-30 14:10 ` Greg Ungerer
2020-04-30 14:51 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-30 21:13 ` Rob Landley
2020-05-01 6:00 ` Greg Ungerer
2020-05-01 19:09 ` Rob Landley
2020-04-30 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-30 19:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-01 5:44 ` Greg Ungerer
2020-05-01 11:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-01 7:14 ` Greg Ungerer
2020-04-30 1:59 ` Nicolas Pitre
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