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From:   Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: BTI interaction between seccomp filters in systemd and glibc
 mprotect calls, causing service failures
References: <8584c14f-5c28-9d70-c054-7c78127d84ea@arm.com>
        <20201026162410.GB27285@arm.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:45:42 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20201026162410.GB27285@arm.com> (Dave Martin via Libc-alpha's
        message of "Mon, 26 Oct 2020 16:24:11 +0000")
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* Dave Martin via Libc-alpha:

> Would it now help to add something like:
>
> int mchangeprot(void *addr, size_t len, int old_flags, int new_flags)
> {
> 	int ret = -EINVAL;
> 	mmap_write_lock(current->mm);
> 	if (all vmas in [addr .. addr + len) have
> 			their mprotect flags set to old_flags) {
>
> 		ret = mprotect(addr, len, new_flags);
> 	}
> 	
> 	mmap_write_unlock(current->mm);
> 	return ret;
> }

I suggested something similar as well.  Ideally, the interface would
subsume pkey_mprotect, though, and have a separate flags argument from
the protection flags.  But then we run into argument list length limits.

Thanks,
Florian
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