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On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 13:08:03 -0500,
Luke Shumaker wrote:
>
> From: Luke Shumaker
>
> The goal of this patchset is to fix
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1740219
>
> The gist is that the current linear search for an acceptable address
> range is a bad strategy when the reason we didn't get a good address
> on the first try is that we've having problems mapping the commpage
> for the 32-bit ARM target; especially if ASLR is disabled.
>
> I think that only the final patch in this patchset is actually
> necessary to fix the issue; but I didn't feel comfortable writing it
> without also makeing the preceding (small) changes.
>
> Luke Shumaker (10):
> linux-user: Use #if to only call validate_guest_space for 32-bit ARM
> target
> linux-user: Rename validate_guest_space => init_guest_commpage
> linux-user: init_guest_space: Clean up if we can't initialize the
> commpage
> linux-user: init_guest_space: Correctly handle guest_start in commpage
> initialization
> linux-user: init_guest_space: Clarify page alignment logic
> linux-user: init_guest_commpage: Add a comment about size check
> linux-user: init_guest_space: Clean up control flow a bit
> linux-user: init_guest_space: Don't try to align if we'll reject it
> linux-user: init_guest_space: Add a comment about search strategy
> linux-user: init_guest_space: Try to make ARM space+commpage
> continuous
>
> linux-user/elfload.c | 145
> ---
> 1 file changed, 114 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.15.1
>
> Happy hacking,
> ~ Luke Shumaker
>