On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 02:42:59PM +0800, Jia Zhang wrote:
> The vsyscall page should be visible only if
> vsyscall=emulate/native when dumping /proc/kcore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang <zhang....@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> index dab78f6..3d4cf33 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -1186,8 +1186,9 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
> register_page_bootmem_info();
>
> /* Register memory areas for /proc/kcore */
> - kclist_add(&kcore_vsyscall, (void *)VSYSCALL_ADDR,
> - PAGE_SIZE, KCORE_USER);
> + if (get_gate_vma(&init_mm))
> + kclist_add(&kcore_vsyscall, (void *)VSYSCALL_ADDR,
> + PAGE_SIZE, KCORE_USER);
nit, we use { } when there's more than 1 line code
anyway the approach looks ok to me
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org>
thanks,
jirka
