Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] perf/binfmt/mm: remove in-tree usage of MAP_EXECUTABLE

[Eric W. Biederman]

David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Stumbling over the history of MAP_EXECUTABLE, I noticed that we still
> have some in-tree users that we can get rid of.
>
> A good fit for the whole series could be Andrew's tree.

In general this looks like a good cleanup.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

As far as I can see we can go after MAP_DENYWRITE the same way.
Today deny_write_access in open_exec is what causes -ETXTBSY
when attempting to write to file that is current executing.

Do you have any plans to look at that?

Eric

> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>
> David Hildenbrand (3):
>   perf: MAP_EXECUTABLE does not indicate VM_MAYEXEC
>   binfmt: remove in-tree usage of MAP_EXECUTABLE
>   mm: ignore MAP_EXECUTABLE in ksys_mmap_pgoff()
>
>  arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c |  4 ++--
>  fs/binfmt_aout.c          |  4 ++--
>  fs/binfmt_elf.c           |  2 +-
>  fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c     | 11 ++---------
>  fs/binfmt_flat.c          |  2 +-
>  include/linux/mman.h      |  2 ++
>  kernel/events/core.c      |  2 --
>  mm/mmap.c                 |  2 +-
>  mm/nommu.c                |  2 +-
>  9 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)