RE: [PATCH v7 09/10] x86, mpx: cleanup unused bound tables

[Ren, Qiaowei]

On 2014-07-24, Hansen, Dave wrote:
> On 07/20/2014 10:38 PM, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
>> Since the kernel allocated those tables on-demand without userspace
>> knowledge, it is also responsible for freeing them when the
>> associated mappings go away.
>> 
>> Here, the solution for this issue is to hook do_munmap() to check
>> whether one process is MPX enabled. If yes, those bounds tables
>> covered in the virtual address region which is being unmapped will
>> be freed
> also.
> 
> This is the part of the code that I'm the most concerned about.
> 
> Could you elaborate on how you've tested this to make sure it works OK?

I can check a lot of debug information when one VMA and related bounds tables are allocated and freed through adding a lot of print() like log into kernel/runtime. Do you think this is enough?

Thanks,
Qiaowei
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