Re: [PATCH] arm64/vdso: Support mremap() for vDSO

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Wed Aug 09 2017 - 06:13:53 EST


On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 08:07:37PM +0300, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> vDSO VMA address is saved in mm_context for the purpose of using
> restorer from vDSO page to return to userspace after signal handling.
>
> In Checkpoint Restore in Userspace (CRIU) project we place vDSO VMA
> on restore back to the place where it was on the dump.
> With the exception for x86 (where there is API to map vDSO with
> arch_prctl()), we move vDSO inherited from CRIU task to restoree
> position by mremap().
>
> CRIU does support arm64 architecture, but kernel doesn't update
> context.vdso pointer after mremap(). Which results in translation
> fault after signal handling on restored application:
> https://github.com/xemul/criu/issues/288
>
> Make vDSO code track the VMA address by supplying .mremap() fops
> the same way it's done for x86 and arm32 by:
> commit b059a453b1cf ("x86/vdso: Add mremap hook to vm_special_mapping")
> commit 280e87e98c09 ("ARM: 8683/1: ARM32: Support mremap() for sigpage/vDSO").
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christopher Covington <cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Queued for 4.14. Thanks.

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Catalin