Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user/syscall.c: Notice about lock bitmask translation for fcntl

[Laurent Vivier]

Le 18/12/2015 07:51, Chen Gang a écrit :
> 
> I found this issue during my working time, it is about sw_64 (almost the
> same as alpha) host running i386 wine programs.
> 
> I also found another issue, but I am not quite sure whether it is worth
> enough for our upstream: The related fix patch is below, which will let
> the initialization slower, but for most archs, they have no this issue.
> 
>     linux-user/mmap.c: Always zero MAP_ANONYMOUS memory in target_mmap()
>     
>     In some architectures, they have no policy to zero MAP_ANONYMOUS memory,
>     which will cause issue for qemu target_mmap.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <address@hidden>
> 
> diff --git a/linux-user/mmap.c b/linux-user/mmap.c
> index 7b459d5..9c9152d 100644
> --- a/linux-user/mmap.c
> +++ b/linux-user/mmap.c
> @@ -567,6 +567,10 @@ abi_long target_mmap(abi_ulong start, abi_ulong len, int 
> prot,
>      printf("\n");
>  #endif
>      tb_invalidate_phys_range(start, start + len);
> +    if ((prot & PROT_WRITE) && (flags & MAP_ANONYMOUS)
> +        && ((flags & MAP_PRIVATE) || (fd == -1))) {
> +        memset(g2h(start), 0, len);
> +    }

IMHO, their kernel needs a fix, mmap(2):

MAP_ANONYMOUS
        The mapping is not backed by any file; its contents are initial‐
        ized to zero.


>      mmap_unlock();
>      return start;
>  fail:
> 
> 
> Thanks.

Laurent