Re: [PATCH v8 2/8] powerpc/vdso: Remove __kernel_datapage_offset and simplify __get_datapage()

[Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>]

Hi Christophe, Will,

On 10/23/20 12:57 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 23/10/2020 à 13:25, Will Deacon a écrit :
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 01:22:04PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>> Hi Dmitry,
[..]
>>> I haven't seen the patches, did you sent them out finally ?

I was working on .close() hook, but while cooking it, I thought it may
be better to make tracking of user landing generic. Note that the vdso
base address is mostly needed by kernel as an address to land in
userspace after processing a signal.

I have some raw patches that add
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_USER_LANDING
+               struct vm_area_struct *user_landing;
+#endif
inside mm_struct and I plan to finish them after rc1 gets released.

While working on that, I noticed that arm32 and some other architectures
track vdso position in mm.context with the only reason to add
AT_SYSINFO_EHDR in the elf header that's being loaded. That's quite
overkill to have a pointer in mm.context that rather can be a local
variable in elf binfmt loader. Also, I found some issues with mremap
code. The patches series mentioned are at the base of the branch with
generic user landing. I have sent only those patches not the full branch
as I remember there was a policy that during merge window one should
send only fixes, rather than refactoring/new code.

>> I think it's this series:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201013013416.390574-1-dima@arista.com
>>
>> but they look really invasive to me, so I may cook a small hack for arm64
>> in the meantine / for stable.

I don't mind small hacks, but I'm concerned that the suggested fix which
sets `mm->context.vdso_base = 0` on munmap() may have it's issue: that
won't work if a user for whatever-broken-reason will mremap() vdso on 0
address. As the fix supposes to fix an issue that hasn't fired for
anyone yet, it probably shouldn't introduce another. That's why I've
used vm_area_struct to track vdso position in the patches set.
Probably, temporary, you could use something like:
#define BAD_VDSO_ADDRESS    (-1)UL
Or non-page-aligned address.
But the signal code that checks if it can land on vdso/sigpage should be
also aligned with the new definition.

> Not sure we are talking about the same thing.
> 
> I can't see any new .close function added to vm_special_mapping in order
> to replace arch_unmap() hook.
Thanks,
          Dmitry