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tmpfs loses unlinked files


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: tmpfs loses unlinked files
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:22:47 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30)

Hello,

For instance the X server crashes on fvwm startup, or mupdf crashes,
when /run is served by a tmpfs.

What happens is that they create an shm (shmget, thus a file in
/run/shm/, backed by tmpfs), then map it (shmat, i.e. open/mmap/close of
the file), then remove access to it (shmctl(IPC_RMID), i.e. unlink the
file).

The issue is that even if the file is still mapped, unlinking it from
tmpfs makes tmpfs mach_port_deallocate the memobj, which apparently
drops the object completely, and subsequent accesses to the mmap thus
fail with SIGBUS.  Would there be a way for tmpfs to know about the
mappings of the pager object, to avoid shutting it down?  Or a way to
keep the object alive even if tmpfs has deallocated its port to it?
I don't know memory management enough to answer it.

Samuel



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