Re: [RFC] fixing the UML failure root cause

From: Andrew Lutomirski
Date: Fri Oct 14 2011 - 16:17:32 EST


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:53 PM, richard -rw- weinberger
<richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> 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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