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[PATCH] linux-user: Add emulation for MADV_WIPEONFORK and MADV_KEEPONFOR


From: Helge Deller
Subject: [PATCH] linux-user: Add emulation for MADV_WIPEONFORK and MADV_KEEPONFORK in madvise()
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 08:00:45 +0100

Both parameters have a different value on the parisc platform, so first
translate the target value into a host value for usage in the native
madvise() syscall.

Those parameters are often used by security sensitive applications (e.g.
tor browser, boringssl, ...) which expect the call to return a proper
return code on failure, so return -EINVAL if qemu fails to forward the
syscall to the host OS.

Tested with testcase of tor browser when running hppa-linux guest on
x86-64 host.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

diff --git a/linux-user/mmap.c b/linux-user/mmap.c
index 10f5079331..c75342108c 100644
--- a/linux-user/mmap.c
+++ b/linux-user/mmap.c
@@ -901,11 +901,25 @@ abi_long target_madvise(abi_ulong start, abi_ulong 
len_in, int advice)
         return -TARGET_EINVAL;
     }

+    /* Translate for some architectures which have different MADV_xxx values */
+    switch (advice) {
+    case TARGET_MADV_DONTNEED:      /* alpha */
+        advice = MADV_DONTNEED;
+        break;
+    case TARGET_MADV_WIPEONFORK:    /* parisc */
+        advice = MADV_WIPEONFORK;
+        break;
+    case TARGET_MADV_KEEPONFORK:    /* parisc */
+        advice = MADV_KEEPONFORK;
+        break;
+    /* we do not care about the other MADV_xxx values yet */
+    }
+
     /*
      * A straight passthrough may not be safe because qemu sometimes turns
      * private file-backed mappings into anonymous mappings.
      *
-     * This is a hint, so ignoring and returning success is ok.
+     * For MADV_DONTNEED, which is a hint, ignoring and returning success is 
ok.
      *
      * This breaks MADV_DONTNEED, completely implementing which is quite
      * complicated. However, there is one low-hanging fruit: mappings that are
@@ -913,11 +927,17 @@ abi_long target_madvise(abi_ulong start, abi_ulong 
len_in, int advice)
      * passthrough is safe, so do it.
      */
     mmap_lock();
-    if (advice == TARGET_MADV_DONTNEED &&
-        can_passthrough_madv_dontneed(start, end)) {
-        ret = get_errno(madvise(g2h_untagged(start), len, MADV_DONTNEED));
-        if (ret == 0) {
-            page_reset_target_data(start, start + len);
+    switch (advice) {
+    case MADV_WIPEONFORK:
+    case MADV_KEEPONFORK:
+        ret = -EINVAL;
+        /* fall through */
+    case MADV_DONTNEED:
+        if (can_passthrough_madv_dontneed(start, end)) {
+            ret = get_errno(madvise(g2h_untagged(start), len, advice));
+            if ((advice == MADV_DONTNEED) && (ret == 0)) {
+                page_reset_target_data(start, start + len);
+            }
         }
     }
     mmap_unlock();



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