Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] mm/ksm: support fork/exec for prctl

[David Hildenbrand]

On 19.09.23 22:51, Stefan Roesch wrote:
> A process can enable KSM with the prctl system call. When the process is
> forked the KSM flag is inherited by the child process. However if the
> process is executing an exec system call directly after the fork, the
> KSM setting is cleared. This patch addresses this problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Carl Klemm <carl@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   include/linux/sched/coredump.h | 7 +++++--
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched/coredump.h b/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
> index 0ee96ea7a0e9..205aa9917394 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
> @@ -87,8 +87,11 @@ static inline int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm)
>   
>   #define MMF_DISABLE_THP_MASK	(1 << MMF_DISABLE_THP)
>   
> +#define MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY	29
> +#define MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY_MASK	(1 << MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY)
> +
>   #define MMF_INIT_MASK		(MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK | MMF_DUMP_FILTER_MASK |\
> -				 MMF_DISABLE_THP_MASK | MMF_HAS_MDWE_MASK)
> +				 MMF_DISABLE_THP_MASK | MMF_HAS_MDWE_MASK |\
> +				 MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY_MASK)
>   
> -#define MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY	29
>   #endif /* _LINUX_SCHED_COREDUMP_H */

Fixes: tag?

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb