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Message-ID: <CAObL_7E-ZpRZqL3D2OoE81-46JU2-dcOO6ywYLzAJJRuP_7Ssw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:17:11 -0700
From:	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
To:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] fixing the UML failure root cause

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:53 PM, richard -rw- weinberger
<richard.weinberger@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu> wrote:
>> What do you think of this approach?  If it seems good, I'll finish the
>> patch and submit it.
>>
>> With this patch applied, UML appears to work, but it fills the log with
>> exploit attempt warnings.  Any ideas on what to do about that?
>>
>
> I can confirm that this patch works.
> And I really like vsyscall=emulate because with that UML can trap vsyscalls. :-)

Are you sure you don't mean vsyscall=native?  I suspect that UML can't
actually trap vsyscalls in emulate mode right now, although that ought
to be fixable.

--Andy
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