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-rw-r--r--pkg/sentry/mm/pma.go41
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/sentry/mm/pma.go b/pkg/sentry/mm/pma.go
index 9f4cc238f..05cdcd8ae 100644
--- a/pkg/sentry/mm/pma.go
+++ b/pkg/sentry/mm/pma.go
@@ -324,20 +324,37 @@ func (mm *MemoryManager) getPMAsInternalLocked(ctx context.Context, vseg vmaIter
panic(fmt.Sprintf("pma %v needs to be copied for writing, but is not readable: %v", pseg.Range(), oldpma))
}
}
- // The majority of copy-on-write breaks on executable pages
- // come from:
- //
- // - The ELF loader, which must zero out bytes on the last
- // page of each segment after the end of the segment.
- //
- // - gdb's use of ptrace to insert breakpoints.
- //
- // Neither of these cases has enough spatial locality to
- // benefit from copying nearby pages, so if the vma is
- // executable, only copy the pages required.
var copyAR hostarch.AddrRange
- if vseg.ValuePtr().effectivePerms.Execute {
+ if vma := vseg.ValuePtr(); vma.effectivePerms.Execute {
+ // The majority of copy-on-write breaks on executable
+ // pages come from:
+ //
+ // - The ELF loader, which must zero out bytes on the
+ // last page of each segment after the end of the
+ // segment.
+ //
+ // - gdb's use of ptrace to insert breakpoints.
+ //
+ // Neither of these cases has enough spatial locality
+ // to benefit from copying nearby pages, so if the vma
+ // is executable, only copy the pages required.
copyAR = pseg.Range().Intersect(ar)
+ } else if vma.growsDown {
+ // In most cases, the new process will not use most of
+ // its stack before exiting or invoking execve(); it is
+ // especially unlikely to return very far down its call
+ // stack, since async-signal-safety concerns in
+ // multithreaded programs prevent the new process from
+ // being able to do much. So only copy up to one page
+ // before and after the pages required.
+ stackMaskAR := ar
+ if newStart := stackMaskAR.Start - hostarch.PageSize; newStart < stackMaskAR.Start {
+ stackMaskAR.Start = newStart
+ }
+ if newEnd := stackMaskAR.End + hostarch.PageSize; newEnd > stackMaskAR.End {
+ stackMaskAR.End = newEnd
+ }
+ copyAR = pseg.Range().Intersect(stackMaskAR)
} else {
copyAR = pseg.Range().Intersect(maskAR)
}