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

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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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410151723.602367196@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Thomas Gleixner 2017-04-10 17:14:28 +02:00
parent c06989da39
commit 6fdc6dd902
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ struct task_struct;
#define ARCH_DLINFO_IA32 \
do { \
if (vdso32_enabled) { \
if (VDSO_CURRENT_BASE) { \
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_SYSINFO, VDSO_ENTRY); \
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_SYSINFO_EHDR, VDSO_CURRENT_BASE); \
} \