Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ren, Qiaowei" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v7 09/10] x86, mpx: cleanup unused bound tables | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:49:43 +0000 |
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On 2014-07-24, Hansen, Dave wrote: > On 07/20/2014 10:38 PM, Qiaowei Ren wrote: >> Since the kernel allocated those tables on-demand without userspace >> knowledge, it is also responsible for freeing them when the >> associated mappings go away. >> >> Here, the solution for this issue is to hook do_munmap() to check >> whether one process is MPX enabled. If yes, those bounds tables >> covered in the virtual address region which is being unmapped will >> be freed > also. > > This is the part of the code that I'm the most concerned about. > > Could you elaborate on how you've tested this to make sure it works OK?
I can check a lot of debug information when one VMA and related bounds tables are allocated and freed through adding a lot of print() like log into kernel/runtime. Do you think this is enough?
Thanks, Qiaowei
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