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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:10:52 +0200
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mlock2 and memfd_create
* Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com> [2018-06-21 17:16:03 -0700]:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:43:14PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> > +
> > +int mlock2(const void *addr, size_t len, unsigned flags)
> > +{
> > + if (flags == 0)
> > + return mlock(addr, len);
> > + return syscall(SYS_mlock2, addr, len, flags);
>
> I would prefer another way to support old kernels:
>
> int ret;
>
> ret = syscall(SYS_mlock2, addr, len, flags);
> if (ret == -1 && errno == ENOSYS && flags == 0)
> return mlock(addr, len);
> return ret;
>
> This way works a bit slower on old kernels, but it doesn't have side
> effects if mlock2 is supported.
>
> For example, the user can set seccomp rules, and he will not expect that
> the mlock syscall will be executed, when he calls mlock2() in a code.
>
mlock2 is documented to be equivalent to mlock if flags==0,
the glibc logic is the same and seccomp (or whatever else
operating on the syscall layer) has to deal with mlock
anyway (unless we change the mlock implementation too).
so i would not be too worried about this.
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