Thread (68 messages) 68 messages, 6 authors, 2019-08-08

Re: [PATCHv5 21/37] x86/vdso: Restrict splitting VVAR VMA

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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-08-01 05:24:04
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 2:58 PM Dmitry Safonov [off-list ref] wrote:
Although, time namespace can work with VVAR VMA split, it seems worth
to forbid splitting VVAR resulting in stricter ABI and reducing amount
of corner-cases to consider while working further on VDSO.

I don't think there is any use-case for partial mremap() of vvar,
but if there is any - this patch can be easily reverted.
Seems reasonable to me.
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