From: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] madvise MADV_DOEXEC
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:27:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab7a25bf-3321-77c8-9bc3-28a223a14032@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200730174956.GK23808@casper.infradead.org>
On 7/30/2020 1:49 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 01:35:51PM -0400, Steven Sistare wrote:
>> mshare + VA reservation is another possible solution.
>>
>> Or MADV_DOEXEC alone, which is ready now. I hope we can get back to reviewing that.
>
> We are. This is the part of the review process where we explore other
> solutions to the problem.
>
>>>> Also, we need to support updating legacy processes that already created anon segments.
>>>> We inject code that calls MADV_DOEXEC for such segments.
>>>
>>> Yes, I was assuming you'd inject code that called mshare().
>>
>> OK, mshare works on existing memory and builds a new vma.
>
> Actually, reparents an existing VMA, and reuses the existing page tables.
>
>>> Actually, since you're injecting code, why do you need the kernel to
>>> be involved? You can mmap the new executable and any libraries it depends
>>> upon, set up a new stack and jump to the main() entry point, all without
>>> calling exec(). I appreciate it'd be a fair amount of code, but it'd all
>>> be in userspace and you can probably steal / reuse code from ld.so (I'm
>>> not familiar with the details of how setting up an executable is done).
>>
>> Duplicating all the work that the kernel and loader do to exec a process would
>> be error prone, require ongoing maintenance, and be redundant. Better to define
>> a small kernel extension and leave exec to the kernel.
>
> Either this is a one-off kind of thing, in which case it doesn't need
> ongoing maintenance, or it's something with broad applicability, in
> which case it can live as its own userspace project. It could even
> start off life as part of qemu and then fork into its own project.
exec will be enhanced over time in the kernel. A separate user space implementation
would need to track that.
Reimplementing exec in userland would be a big gross mess. Not a good solution when
we have simple and concise ways of solving the problem.
> The idea of tagging an ELF executable to say "I can cope with having
> chunks of my address space provided to me by my executor" is ... odd.
I don't disagree. But it is useful. We already pass a block of data containing
environment variables and arguments from one process to the next. Preserving
additional segments is not a big leap from there.
- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-30 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-27 17:11 [RFC PATCH 0/5] madvise MADV_DOEXEC Anthony Yznaga
2020-07-27 17:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-27 18:00 ` Steven Sistare
2020-07-28 13:40 ` Christian Brauner
2020-07-27 17:11 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] elf: reintroduce using MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE for elf executable mappings Anthony Yznaga
2020-07-27 17:11 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] mm: do not assume only the stack vma exists in setup_arg_pages() Anthony Yznaga
2020-07-27 17:11 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] mm: introduce VM_EXEC_KEEP Anthony Yznaga
2020-07-28 13:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-28 17:44 ` Anthony Yznaga
2020-07-29 13:52 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-07-29 23:20 ` Anthony Yznaga
2020-07-27 17:11 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] exec, elf: require opt-in for accepting preserved mem Anthony Yznaga
2020-07-27 17:11 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] mm: introduce MADV_DOEXEC Anthony Yznaga
2020-07-28 13:22 ` Kirill Tkhai
2020-07-28 14:06 ` Steven Sistare
2020-07-28 11:34 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] madvise MADV_DOEXEC Kirill Tkhai
2020-07-28 17:28 ` Anthony Yznaga
2020-07-28 14:23 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-07-28 14:30 ` Steven Sistare
2020-07-30 15:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-30 15:27 ` Christian Brauner
2020-07-30 15:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-30 15:54 ` Christian Brauner
2020-07-31 9:12 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-07-30 15:59 ` Steven Sistare
2020-07-30 17:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-30 17:35 ` Steven Sistare
2020-07-30 17:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-30 18:27 ` Steven Sistare [this message]
2020-07-30 21:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-31 14:57 ` Steven Sistare
2020-07-31 15:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-31 16:11 ` Steven Sistare
2020-07-31 16:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-31 17:15 ` Steven Sistare
2020-07-31 17:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-31 17:55 ` Steven Sistare
2020-07-31 17:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-03 15:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-08-03 15:42 ` James Bottomley
2020-08-03 20:03 ` Steven Sistare
[not found] ` <9371b8272fd84280ae40b409b260bab3@AcuMS.aculab.com>
2020-08-04 11:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-03 19:29 ` Steven Sistare
2020-07-31 19:41 ` Steven Sistare
2021-07-08 9:52 ` Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
2021-07-08 12:48 ` Steven Sistare
2021-07-12 1:05 ` Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
2021-07-12 1:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-13 0:57 ` Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
2021-08-13 19:49 ` Khalid Aziz
2021-08-14 20:07 ` David Laight
2021-08-16 0:26 ` Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
2021-08-16 8:07 ` David Laight
2021-08-16 6:54 ` Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
2021-08-16 8:02 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-16 12:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-16 12:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-16 12:42 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-16 12:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-16 13:24 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-16 13:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-16 14:10 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-16 14:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-16 14:33 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-16 14:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-16 15:01 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-16 15:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-16 16:06 ` Khalid Aziz
2021-08-16 16:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-16 16:13 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-16 12:27 ` [private] " David Hildenbrand
2021-08-16 12:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-17 0:47 ` Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
2021-08-17 0:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
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