Thread (65 messages) 65 messages, 6 authors, 2014-09-24

Re: [PATCH v8 09/10] x86, mpx: cleanup unused bound tables

From: Dave Hansen <hidden>
Date: 2014-09-12 04:59:50
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On 09/11/2014 08:02 PM, Ren, Qiaowei wrote:
On 2014-09-11, Hansen, Dave wrote:
quoted
On 09/11/2014 01:46 AM, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
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+ * This function will be called by do_munmap(), and the VMAs
+ covering
+ * the virtual address region start...end have already been split
+ if
+ * necessary and remvoed from the VMA list.
"remvoed" -> "removed"
quoted
+void mpx_unmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
+		unsigned long start, unsigned long end) {
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = mpx_try_unmap(mm, start, end);
+	if (ret == -EINVAL)
+		force_sig(SIGSEGV, current);
+}
In the case of a fault during an unmap, this just ignores the 
situation and returns silently.  Where is the code to retry the 
freeing operation outside of mmap_sem?
Dave, you mean delayed_work code? According to our discussion, it
will be deferred to another mainline post.
OK, fine.  Just please call that out in the description.

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