On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 03:51:18PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
This patch is a part of a series that extends arm64 kernel ABI to allow to pass tagged user pointers (with the top byte set to something else other than 0x00) as syscall arguments.
This patch allows tagged pointers to be passed to the following memory syscalls: madvise, mbind, get_mempolicy, mincore, mlock, mlock2, brk, mmap_pgoff, old_mmap, munmap, remap_file_pages, mprotect, pkey_mprotect, mremap, msync and shmdt.
This is done by untagging pointers passed to these syscalls in the prologues of their handlers.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov andreyknvl@google.com
ipc/shm.c | 2 ++ mm/madvise.c | 2 ++ mm/mempolicy.c | 5 +++++ mm/migrate.c | 1 + mm/mincore.c | 2 ++ mm/mlock.c | 5 +++++ mm/mmap.c | 7 +++++++ mm/mprotect.c | 1 + mm/mremap.c | 2 ++ mm/msync.c | 2 ++ 10 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
I wonder whether it's better to keep these as wrappers in the arm64 code.