The vsyscall32 sysctl can racy against a concurrent fork when it switches from disabled to enabled: arch_setup_additional_pages() if (vdso32_enabled) --> No mapping sysctl.vsysscall32() --> vdso32_enabled = true create_elf_tables() ARCH_DLINFO_IA32 if (vdso32_enabled) { --> Add VDSO entry with NULL pointer Make ARCH_DLINFO_IA32 check whether the VDSO mapping has been set up for the newly forked process or not. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Mathias Krause Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ struct task_struct; #define ARCH_DLINFO_IA32 \ do { \ - if (vdso32_enabled) { \ + if (VDSO_CURRENT_BASE) { \ NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_SYSINFO, VDSO_ENTRY); \ NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_SYSINFO_EHDR, VDSO_CURRENT_BASE); \ } \