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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] perf/binfmt/mm: remove in-tree usage of
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From:   David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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Date:   Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:56:06 +0200
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On 21.04.21 21:03, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> Stumbling over the history of MAP_EXECUTABLE, I noticed that we still
>> have some in-tree users that we can get rid of.
>>
>> A good fit for the whole series could be Andrew's tree.
> 
> In general this looks like a good cleanup.
> 
> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> 
> As far as I can see we can go after MAP_DENYWRITE the same way.
> Today deny_write_access in open_exec is what causes -ETXTBSY
> when attempting to write to file that is current executing.
> 
> Do you have any plans to look at that?

I did have a look and thought about ripping out MAP_DENYWRITE; I'm still 
in the process of connecting the pieces.

Some VM_DENYWRITE e.g., in mm/khugepaged.c still gives me a headache , 
and I'll have to double-check whether it would be okay to just fallback 
on checking the actual vm->file.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb