linux/fs/proc
Linus Torvalds d7824370e2 mm: fix up some user-visible effects of the stack guard page
This commit makes the stack guard page somewhat less visible to user
space. It does this by:

 - not showing the guard page in /proc/<pid>/maps

   It looks like lvm-tools will actually read /proc/self/maps to figure
   out where all its mappings are, and effectively do a specialized
   "mlockall()" in user space.  By not showing the guard page as part of
   the mapping (by just adding PAGE_SIZE to the start for grows-up
   pages), lvm-tools ends up not being aware of it.

 - by also teaching the _real_ mlock() functionality not to try to lock
   the guard page.

   That would just expand the mapping down to create a new guard page,
   so there really is no point in trying to lock it in place.

It would perhaps be nice to show the guard page specially in
/proc/<pid>/maps (or at least mark grow-down segments some way), but
let's not open ourselves up to more breakage by user space from programs
that depends on the exact deails of the 'maps' file.

Special thanks to Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for diving into lvm-tools
source code to see what was going on with the whole new warning.

Reported-and-tested-by: François Valenduc <francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be
Reported-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-15 11:35:52 -07:00
..
array.c CRED: Fix get_task_cred() and task_state() to not resurrect dead credentials 2010-07-29 15:16:17 -07:00
base.c vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc 2010-08-11 00:29:47 -04:00
cmdline.c
cpuinfo.c
devices.c
generic.c remove inode_setattr 2010-08-09 16:47:37 -04:00
inode.c bkl: Remove locked .ioctl file operation 2010-08-14 00:24:24 +02:00
internal.h proc: rename de_get() to pde_get() and inline it 2009-12-16 07:19:57 -08:00
interrupts.c
Kconfig
kcore.c kcore: add _text to KCORE_TEXT 2010-05-27 09:12:47 -07:00
kmsg.c procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kmsg 2010-04-09 16:35:41 +02:00
loadavg.c
Makefile procfs: simplify conditional processing of fs/proc.o. 2010-08-11 08:59:20 -07:00
meminfo.c hwpoison: fix/proc/meminfo alignment 2009-10-29 07:39:25 -07:00
mmu.c
nommu.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
page.c mm: export stable page flags 2009-12-16 12:19:59 +01:00
proc_devtree.c of: Drop properties with "/" in their name 2010-06-13 18:12:24 -06:00
proc_net.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
proc_sysctl.c remove inode_setattr 2010-08-09 16:47:37 -04:00
proc_tty.c
root.c proc: cleanup: remove unused assignments 2010-05-27 09:12:47 -07:00
softirqs.c proc: export statistics for softirq to /proc 2009-06-18 13:03:41 -07:00
stat.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
task_mmu.c mm: fix up some user-visible effects of the stack guard page 2010-08-15 11:35:52 -07:00
task_nommu.c nommu: add '[stack]' label to /proc/pid/maps output 2010-06-29 15:29:30 -07:00
uptime.c [PATCH] Fix idle time field in /proc/uptime 2009-09-24 10:16:24 +02:00
version.c
vmcore.c Merge branch 'bkl/procfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing 2010-05-19 17:23:28 -07:00