Hi all, While investigating ports/115092 and other reports of seemingly random page faults when running Wine, I think I've found the cause to be mmap not being thread-safe when MAP_FIXED is used. It causes mmap(MAP_FIXED) to return -1(ENOMEM) sometimes when it shouldn't, but also to return an address with wrong protections, hence the protection faults occuring. Attached is a test program that shows this. It runs two threads. The first mmap()'s a region, starts a second thread and then goes in a loop calling mmap(PROT_WRITE,MAP_FIXED) on that region, essentially replacing that mapping. This is basically what rtld does to map an ELF object for instance when dlopen(3) is called. The second thread tries to steal the mapping from the first by calling mmap(PROT_NONE) in a loop. After a while the program segfaults when the first thread tries to write to the mapped region. Some lines are commented out. If you remove the commenting, I hit on the case where mmap(MAP_FIXED) returns -1. The problem is in sys/vm/vm_mmap.c:vm_mmap(). In case of MAP_FIXED first vm_map_remove() is called and then later vm_map_find(). This would need some locking, but I don't know which lock or how to approach this, so can somebody have a look at this?
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