Commit ef9e78fd authored by HATAYAMA Daisuke's avatar HATAYAMA Daisuke Committed by Linus Torvalds
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vmcore: allow user process to remap ELF note segment buffer 



Now ELF note segment has been copied in the buffer on vmalloc memory.
To allow user process to remap the ELF note segment buffer with
remap_vmalloc_page, the corresponding VM area object has to have
VM_USERMAP flag set.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use the conventional comment layout]
Signed-off-by: default avatarHATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 087350c9

fs/proc/vmcore.c

+18 −0
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -369,6 +369,7 @@ static int __init merge_note_headers_elf64(char *elfptr, size_t *elfsz, 
	Elf64_Ehdr *ehdr_ptr;

	Elf64_Phdr phdr;

	u64 phdr_sz = 0, note_off;

	struct vm_struct *vm;



	ehdr_ptr = (Elf64_Ehdr *)elfptr;
@@ -385,6 +386,14 @@ static int __init merge_note_headers_elf64(char *elfptr, size_t *elfsz, 
	if (!*notes_buf)

		return -ENOMEM;



	/*

	 * Allow users to remap ELF note segment buffer on vmalloc memory using

	 * remap_vmalloc_range.()

	 */

	vm = find_vm_area(*notes_buf);

	BUG_ON(!vm);

	vm->flags |= VM_USERMAP;



	rc = copy_notes_elf64(ehdr_ptr, *notes_buf);

	if (rc < 0)

		return rc;
@@ -548,6 +557,7 @@ static int __init merge_note_headers_elf32(char *elfptr, size_t *elfsz, 
	Elf32_Ehdr *ehdr_ptr;

	Elf32_Phdr phdr;

	u64 phdr_sz = 0, note_off;

	struct vm_struct *vm;



	ehdr_ptr = (Elf32_Ehdr *)elfptr;
@@ -564,6 +574,14 @@ static int __init merge_note_headers_elf32(char *elfptr, size_t *elfsz, 
	if (!*notes_buf)

		return -ENOMEM;



	/*

	 * Allow users to remap ELF note segment buffer on vmalloc memory using

	 * remap_vmalloc_range()

	 */

	vm = find_vm_area(*notes_buf);

	BUG_ON(!vm);

	vm->flags |= VM_USERMAP;



	rc = copy_notes_elf32(ehdr_ptr, *notes_buf);

	if (rc < 0)

		return rc;