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Diffstat (limited to 'pkg/sentry/mm/special_mappable.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkg/sentry/mm/special_mappable.go | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/sentry/mm/special_mappable.go b/pkg/sentry/mm/special_mappable.go index f4c93baeb..2dbe5b751 100644 --- a/pkg/sentry/mm/special_mappable.go +++ b/pkg/sentry/mm/special_mappable.go @@ -136,9 +136,12 @@ func (m *SpecialMappable) Length() uint64 { // NewSharedAnonMappable returns a SpecialMappable that implements the // semantics of mmap(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS) and mappings of /dev/zero. // -// TODO(jamieliu): The use of SpecialMappable is a lazy code reuse hack. Linux -// uses an ephemeral file created by mm/shmem.c:shmem_zero_setup(); we should -// do the same to get non-zero device and inode IDs. +// TODO(gvisor.dev/issue/1624): Linux uses an ephemeral file created by +// mm/shmem.c:shmem_zero_setup(), and VFS2 does something analogous. VFS1 uses +// a SpecialMappable instead, incorrectly getting device and inode IDs of zero +// and causing memory for shared anonymous mappings to be allocated up-front +// instead of on first touch; this is to avoid exacerbating the fs.MountSource +// leak (b/143656263). Delete this function along with VFS1. func NewSharedAnonMappable(length uint64, mfp pgalloc.MemoryFileProvider) (*SpecialMappable, error) { if length == 0 { return nil, syserror.EINVAL |