Quoting Oren Laadan ([email protected]):
> 
> 
> Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Oren Laadan ([email protected]):
> >> +  ret = -EINVAL;
> >> +  if (hh->vdso != (unsigned long) mm->context.vdso)
> >> +          goto out;
> > 
> > We were just talking about vdso+s390 on irc this morning,
> > wondering about how to handle it...
> > 
> > Looking at arch/x86/vdso/vma.c, this seems like it should
> > pretty much always error out.  The vdso base is set as a
> > random offset above the stack base at exec().
> 
> Yes, I was wondering too ... :(
> 
> The default config is CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO which disabled the
> randomization, that's why it works for the default case on X86_32.
> 
> I think the code is mainly in arch/x86/vdso/vdso32_setup.c.

We may earn the ire of the community once again, but it seems to
me we have no choice but to tweak arch_setup_additional_pages()
to take an optional requested location.  Then binfmt->load_binary()
can pass NULL to indicate business as usual, while sys_restart()
can pass the saved vdso_base.

-serge
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