Re: [RFC 3/4] x86/signal/64: Re-add support for SS in the 64-bit signal context

[Stas Sergeev]

14.10.2015 18:01, Ingo Molnar ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> 
> * Stas Sergeev <stsp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On an off-topic: there was recently a patch from you that
>> disables vm86() by mmap_min_addr. I've found that dosemu, when
>> started as root, could override mmap_min_addr. I guess this will
>> no longer work, right? Not a big regression, just something to
>> know and document.
> 
> So I think it should still work, because we check for mmap_min_addr in the system 
> call itself:
> 
> static long do_sys_vm86(struct vm86plus_struct __user *user_vm86, bool plus)
> {
> ...
>         err = security_mmap_addr(0);
>         if (err) {
>                 /*
> 
> So if dosemu first tweaks mmap_min_addr, the syscall should succeed.
No, it doesn't tweak it.
It just seems that root is allowed to do mmap(0, MAP_FIXED)
_regardless_ of mmap_min_addr. But it would be crazy to run vm86() as
root to also bypass the check (dosemu drops privs earlier), so I guess
this trick will stop working.
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