[RFC 05/18] pkernfs: add file mmap callback

[Dave Chinner]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 12:01:50PM +0000, James Gowans wrote:
> Make the file data useable to userspace by adding mmap. That's all that
> QEMU needs for guest RAM, so that's all be bother implementing for now.
> 
> When mmaping the file the VMA is marked as PFNMAP to indicate that there
> are no struct pages for the memory in this VMA. Remap_pfn_range() is
> used to actually populate the page tables. All PTEs are pre-faulted into
> the pgtables at mmap time so that the pgtables are useable when this
> virtual address range is given to VFIO's MAP_DMA.

And so what happens when this file is truncated whilst it is mmap()d
by an application? Ain't that just a great big UAF waiting to be
exploited?

-Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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