Re: [RFC PATCH v4 24/27] mm/mmap: Create a guard area between VMAs

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 9:06 AM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2018-10-02 at 22:36 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 9:55 PM Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 08:03:48AM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> > > > Create a guard area between VMAs, to detect memory corruption.
> > >
> > > Do I understand correctly that with this patch a user space program
> > > no longer be able to place two mappings back to back? If it is so,
> > > it will likely break a lot of things; for example, it's a common ring
> > > buffer implementations technique, to map buffer memory twice back
> > > to back in order to avoid special handling of items wrapping its end.
> >
> > I haven't checked what the patch actually does, but it shouldn't have
> > any affect on MAP_FIXED or the new no-replace MAP_FIXED variant.
> >
> > --Andy
>
> I did some mmap tests with/without MAP_FIXED, and it works as intended.
> In addition to the ring buffer, are there other test cases?
>

Various ELF loaders, perhaps?  Do they use MAP_FIXED or do they just
use address hints?