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SubjectRe: [PATCH] powerpc/vdso: Fix VDSO unmap check
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Le 03/11/2020 à 18:13, Laurent Dufour a écrit :
> The check introduced by the commit 83d3f0e90c6c ("powerpc/mm: tracking vDSO
> remap") is wrong and is missing some partial unmaps of the VDSO.
>
> To be complete the check needs the base and end address of the
> VDSO. Currently only the base is available in the mm_context of a task, but
> the end address can easily be computed because the size of VDSO is
> constant. However, there are 2 sizes for 32 or 64 bits task and they are
> stored in static variables in arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c.
>
> Exporting a new function called vdso_pages() to get the number of pages of
> the VDSO based on the static variables from arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c.
>
> Fixes: 83d3f0e90c6c ("powerpc/mm: tracking vDSO remap")
>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
> arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

This patch doesn't apply anymore.

In the meantime there's a pending series from Dmitry, so I'm wondering
if it is worth rebasing this series or not.

Christophe

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