linux-kernel - Re: vdso && f_op->mremap (Was: special_mapping

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Message-ID: <20150623170335.GA27256@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2015 19:03:35 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: vdso && f_op->mremap (Was: special_mapping_fault() is broken)

On 06/23, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>
> On 06/23/2015 03:47 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > Afaics. Still, I think we might want to have special_mapping_remap()
> > and we can't do this because ->vm_file == NULL.
>
> For aio (the single for now mapping with mremap callback) the vm_file
> is not NULL.

I meant, vdso can't hook ->remap because vm_file is NULL.

> > In short. Shouldn't we move ->mremap() to vm_operations_struct before
> > it has another user? We need to fix aio.c, but this is trivial.
> >
> > No?
>
> I will be OK with this change :)

OK, nobody objects, I'll send a patch...

Oleg.

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