[PATCH] uml: make vsyscall page into process page tables
From: Bodo Stroesser To make the vsyscall-page available for copy_from_user() and ptrace(), we should use kernel's "gate-vma" mechanism. Therefore we need a valid page structure. To have this, one page (or more) is allocated at boot time, the contents of the vsyscall-page is copied into this page and the page's pte is inserted in swapper's pagetables. Now it will be copied into the pagetables of all processes. Note: this alone doesn't work, since FIXADDR_USER_START and FIXADDR_USER_END are not yet defined correctly. Also access_ok_skas() does not yet grant read accesses to pages not in the normal user area. Risks: Please check the first hunk! I don't know, whether this change is OK. Maybe fixrange_init() is wrong anyway with 3-level-pagetables? Here access_ok_skas() and FIXADDR_USER_XXXX are fixed. Now everything should work fine, while the processes are running. But if a process crashes, the vsyscall-page will not be dumped. Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bodo.stroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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