Commit df1c5dfd authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Ben Hutchings

x86/vdso: Plug race between mapping and ELF header setup

commit 6fdc6dd9 upstream.

The vsyscall32 sysctl can racy against a concurrent fork when it switches
from disabled to enabled:

    arch_setup_additional_pages()
	if (vdso32_enabled)
           --> No mapping
                                        sysctl.vsysscall32()
                                          --> vdso32_enabled = true
    create_elf_tables()
      ARCH_DLINFO_IA32
        if (vdso32_enabled) {
           --> Add VDSO entry with NULL pointer

Make ARCH_DLINFO_IA32 check whether the VDSO mapping has been set up for
the newly forked process or not.
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410151723.602367196@linutronix.deSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: change the flag passed to ARCH_DLINFO_IA32()]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent 34b5dcc5
......@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ do { \
#define AT_SYSINFO 32
#define COMPAT_ARCH_DLINFO ARCH_DLINFO_IA32(sysctl_vsyscall32)
#define COMPAT_ARCH_DLINFO ARCH_DLINFO_IA32(VDSO_CURRENT_BASE)
#define COMPAT_ELF_ET_DYN_BASE (TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE + 0x1000000)
......
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