linux-kernel - Re: mprotect abuse in slim

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:58:45 -0600
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
To:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>, akpm@...l.org,
	kjhall@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	safford@...f.watson.ibm.com
Subject: Re: mprotect abuse in slim

Quoting Pekka J Enberg (penberg@...helsinki.fi):
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Whatever happened with Pekka's revoke submissions?  Did you lose
> > interest after
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/penberg/patches/revoke/2.6.19-rc1/revoke-2.6.19-rc1,
> > or was it decided that the approach was unworkable?
> 
> Lack of time.

Ok great - then it's not dead  :)

> Also, I would love to hear comments on the way I am doing
> revoke on shared mappings. There are few open issues remaining, mainly,
> supporting munmap(2) for revoked mappings.

Hmm, I wanted to test your revoke-munmap.c to see what you get right now
with munmap, but a quick port of your patch to yesterdays -git on s390
gives me an oops on do_revoke.  I'll have to straighten that out when I
get a chance.

But since it looks like you just munmap the region now, shouldn't a
subsequent munmap by the app just return -EINVAL?  that seems appropriate
to me.

thanks,
-serge
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