On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:41:17 +0000
Vincent Donnefort <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Hum, not sure this is entirely correct. We do set VM_DONTCOPY when creating 
> > the
> > mapping (see __rb_map_vma). So AFAICT ->open() is not called in this 
> > situation (see
> > dup_mmap())  
> 
> Ah right, Syzkaller is using madvise(MADVISE_DOFORK) which resets VM_DONTCOPY.

Hmm,

So this means user space can override the DONTCOPY? Can this cause bugs
elsewhere that DONTCOPY is used?

-- Steve

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