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UML - host VDSO fix
authorJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:37:30 +0000 (15:37 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 6 Apr 2007 10:43:11 +0000 (03:43 -0700)
commit6f6017090339ddb751b3c71840c214282214f6bc
tree85292a6a7251d8689b8378ffeb134736243f51ef
parentedfcf73f3005c29f7f28f4fcd47cfbfc06af10bb
UML - host VDSO fix

This fixes a problem seen by a number of people running UML on newer host
kernels.  init would hang with an infinite segfault loop.

It turns out that the host kernel was providing a AT_SYSINFO_EHDR of
0xffffe000, which faked UML into believing that the host VDSO page could be
reused.  However, AT_SYSINFO pointed into the middle of the address space, and
was unmapped as a result.  Because UML was providing AT_SYSINFO_EHDR and
AT_SYSINFO to its own processes, these would branch to nowhere when trying to
use the VDSO.

The fix is to also check the location of AT_SYSINFO when deciding whether to
use the host's VDSO.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c