Re: [patch 05/16] mm: Allow special mappings with user access cleared

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:06:51AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > gup would find the page. These patches do in fact rely on that through
> > the populate things.
> >
> 
> Blech.  So you can write(2) from the LDT to a file and you can even
> sendfile it, perhaps. 

Hmm, indeed.. I suppose I could go fix that. But how bad is it to leak
the LDT contents?

What would be far worse of course is if we could read(2) data into the
ldt, I'll look into that.

> What happens if it's get_user_page()'d when
> modify_ldt() wants to free it?

modify_ldt should never free pages, we only ever free pages when we
destroy the mm.