9 Aug
2022
9 Aug
'22
6:48 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 12:32 AM David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com wrote:
For example, a write() via /proc/self/mem to a uffd-wp-protected range has to fail instead of silently granting write access and bypassing the userspace fault handler.
This, btw, just makes me go "uffd-wp is broken garbage" once more.
It also makes me go "if uffd-wp can disallow ptrace writes, then why doesn't regular write protect do it"?
IOW, I don't think the patch is wrong (apart from the VM_BUG_ON's that absolutely must go away), but I get the strong feelign that we instead should try to get rid of FOLL_FORCE entirely.
If some other user action can stop FOLL_FORCE anyway, then why do we support it at all?
Linus