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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:45:44 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@....com>,  Jeremy Linton
 <jeremy.linton@....com>,  Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
  libc-alpha@...rceware.org,  Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,  Will
 Deacon <will@...nel.org>,  Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,  Salvatore
 Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@...il.com>,  Lennart Poettering
 <mzxreary@...inter.de>,  Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@...il.com>,
  linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,  linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
  kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,  linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] aarch64: avoid mprotect(PROT_BTI|PROT_EXEC) [BZ
 #26831]

* Catalin Marinas:

> Can the dynamic loader mmap() the main exe again while munmap'ing the
> original one? (sorry if it was already discussed)

No, we don't have a descriptor for that.  /proc may not be mounted, and
using the path stored there has a race condition anyway.

Thanks,
Florian
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