This bug is in 2.6.21-rc7-mm2, but not 2.6.21. Haven't tested
2.6.21-mm1 yet.
The following kernel module uses get_user_pages() to look at user
memory, and gets zeroed pages if they're not touched by userspace first.
The test case seems a little sensitive to change (eg. mapping at a
non-fixed address seems to work).
Usage:
(build kernel)
gcc -o examine_mmap examine_mmap.c
sudo insmod kernel/examiner.ko
sudo ./examine_mmap
examine_mmap: For 0x1000: kernel sees 0, I see 1179403647
sudo ./examine_mmap --touch
OK: Both saw 1179403647
Anyone?
Rusty.
diff -r 142e4ca8c069 examine_mmap.c
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/examine_mmap.c Sun May 06 16:21:19 2007 +1000
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/* Make with gcc -o examine_mmap examine_mmap.c */
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+ int *p;
+ char addrstr[80];
+ int res, fd;
+
+ /* Grab some file to mmap. */
+ fd = open("./vmlinux", O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd < 0)
+ err(1, "open");
+
+ /* Map one page of it at 4096 */
+ p = (void *)4096;
+ if (mmap(p, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, fd, 0) != p)
+ err(1, "mmap");
+
+ /* This makes it work. */
+ if (argc > 1 && strcmp(argv[1], "--touch") == 0)
+ printf("Before: %p == %i\n", p, *p);
+
+ /* Find out what the kernel thinks it is with get_user_pages() */
+ fd = open("/proc/examiner", O_RDWR);
+ sprintf(addrstr, "%p", p);
+ res = write(fd, addrstr, strlen(addrstr));
+ if (res != *p)
+ errx(1, "For %p: kernel sees %i, I see %i\n", p, res, *p);
+ printf("OK: Both saw %i\n", res);
+ return 0;
+}
diff -r 142e4ca8c069 kernel/Makefile
--- a/kernel/Makefile Sat May 05 22:01:39 2007 +1000
+++ b/kernel/Makefile Sun May 06 10:38:27 2007 +1000
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_UTS_NS) += utsname.o
obj-$(CONFIG_UTS_NS) += utsname.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT) += delayacct.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TASKSTATS) += taskstats.o tsacct.o
+obj-m += examiner.o
ifneq ($(CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER),y)
# According to Alan Modra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the -fno-omit-frame-pointer is
diff -r 142e4ca8c069 kernel/examiner.c
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/kernel/examiner.c Sun May 06 16:15:24 2007 +1000
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+#include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+
+ssize_t examiner_write(struct file *f, const char __user *u, size_t s, loff_t
*o)
+{
+ char addrstr[20];
+ unsigned long addr, res = 0xBADFEED;
+ struct page *page;
+
+ copy_from_user(addrstr, u, sizeof(addrstr));
+ addr = simple_strtoul(addrstr, NULL, 0);
+
+ down_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem);
+ if (get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr,
+ 1, 0, 1, &page, NULL) == 1) {
+ int *p = kmap(page);
+ res = *p;
+ kunmap(page);
+ }
+ up_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem);
+ return res;
+}
+
+static const struct file_operations examiner_fops = {
+ .write = examiner_write,
+};
+
+
+static int examiner(void)
+{
+ struct proc_dir_entry *p;
+
+ p = create_proc_entry("examiner", 0600, NULL);
+ p->proc_fops = &examiner_fops;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void unexaminer(void)
+{
+ remove_proc_entry("examiner", NULL);
+}
+module_init(examiner);
+module_exit(unexaminer);
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