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Dmitry Safonov 1b028f784e x86/mm: Introduce mmap_compat_base() for 32-bit mmap()
mmap() uses a base address, from which it starts to look for a free space
for allocation.

The base address is stored in mm->mmap_base, which is calculated during
exec(). The address depends on task's size, set rlimit for stack, ASLR
randomization. The base depends on the task size and the number of random
bits which are different for 64-bit and 32bit applications.

Due to the fact, that the base address is fixed, its mmap() from a compat
(32bit) syscall issued by a 64bit task will return a address which is based
on the 64bit base address and does not fit into the 32bit address space
(4GB). The returned pointer is truncated to 32bit, which results in an
invalid address.

To solve store a seperate compat address base plus a compat legacy address
base in mm_struct. These bases are calculated at exec() time and can be
used later to address the 32bit compat mmap() issued by 64 bit
applications.

As a consequence of this change 32-bit applications issuing a 64-bit
syscall (after doing a long jump) will get a 64-bit mapping now. Before
this change 32-bit applications always got a 32bit mapping.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog and added a comment ]

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: 0x7f454c46@gmail.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306141721.9188-4-dsafonov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-03-13 14:59:22 +01:00
Documentation Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-12 14:11:38 -07:00
arch x86/mm: Introduce mmap_compat_base() for 32-bit mmap() 2017-03-13 14:59:22 +01:00
block blk: improve order of bio handling in generic_make_request() 2017-03-08 10:55:17 -07:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-03-04 10:42:53 -08:00
drivers Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-12 14:11:38 -07:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs Merge branch 'prep-for-5level' 2017-03-10 08:59:07 -08:00
include x86/mm: Introduce mmap_compat_base() for 32-bit mmap() 2017-03-13 14:59:22 +01:00
init Change get_random_{int,log} to use the CRNG used by /dev/urandom and 2017-03-11 09:08:47 -08:00
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kernel Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-12 14:18:49 -07:00
lib mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
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net libceph: osd_request_timeout option 2017-03-07 14:30:38 +01:00
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scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-03-10 08:34:42 -08:00
security Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
sound scripts/spelling.txt: add "disble(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-03-09 17:01:09 -08:00
tools userfaultfd: selftest: vm: allow to build in vm/ directory 2017-03-09 17:01:10 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: VGIC: Fix command handling while ITS being disabled 2017-03-07 15:44:08 +00:00
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Makefile Linux 4.11-rc2 2017-03-12 14:47:08 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.