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um: set DONTDUMP and DONTFORK flags on KASAN shadow memory

There is no point in either dumping the KASAN shadow memory or doing
copy-on-write after a fork on these memory regions.

This considerably speeds up coredump generation.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241103150506.1367695-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c
··· 39 39 strerror(errno)); 40 40 exit(1); 41 41 } 42 + 43 + if (madvise(start, len, MADV_DONTDUMP)) { 44 + os_info("Couldn't set MAD_DONTDUMP on shadow memory: %s\n.", 45 + strerror(errno)); 46 + exit(1); 47 + } 48 + 49 + if (madvise(start, len, MADV_DONTFORK)) { 50 + os_info("Couldn't set MADV_DONTFORK on shadow memory: %s\n.", 51 + strerror(errno)); 52 + exit(1); 53 + } 42 54 } 43 55 44 56 /* Set by make_tempfile() during early boot. */