Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86: Relocate the compat vdso per process

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

There is one sensible address: end of address space perhaps minus some small offset.  Unlikely to be used by anything specific.

On March 11, 2014 11:09:11 PM PDT, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>On Mar 11, 2014 10:02 PM, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/11/2014 03:15 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>>
>>> The meat of this patch series is in patch 1.  Patch 2 is split out
>for
>>> improved bisectability.
>>>
>>> Changes from v1: Split into two patches and fixed a comment.
>>>
>>> Andy Lutomirski (2):
>>>    x86: Dynamically relocate the compat vdso
>>>    x86_32: Remove user bit from identity map PDE
>>>
>>>   Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt  |  18 +++-
>>>   arch/x86/Kconfig                     |  24 +++--
>>>   arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h           |   4 -
>>>   arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h        |   8 --
>>>   arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h |   7 +-
>>>   arch/x86/include/asm/vdso.h          |   5 +-
>>>   arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S      |   2 +-
>>>   arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c         | 173
>++++++++++++++++-------------------
>>>   arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S    |   2 -
>>>   9 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 132 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>> Why per process?  *If* we have compat vdso turned on, can't we just
>put it in one place system-wide?
>
>My machine has ASLR turned on, and the vma really does end up
>somewhere different each time.  I suspect that most (?) ASLR users
>would happily accept the 4k hit to keep ASLR working fully.
>
>Another downside of trying to have a common address for all processes:
>someone needs to figure out what that address is.  What happens if an
>ELF binary (or interpreter) wants to load something at the chosen
>address?
>
>--Andy

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