Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 2 authors, 2014-08-13

[PATCH v3 3/7] arm: use fixmap for text patching when text is RO

From: Stephen Boyd <hidden>
Date: 2014-08-12 21:39:12
Also in: lkml

On 08/12/14 11:24, Kees Cook wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c b/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c
index 07314af47733..03dd4e39c833 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c
@@ -13,21 +16,69 @@ struct patch {
 	unsigned int insn;
 };
 
-void __kprobes __patch_text(void *addr, unsigned int insn)
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(patch_lock);
+
+static void __kprobes *patch_map(void *addr, int fixmap, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+	unsigned int uintaddr = (uintptr_t) addr;
+	bool module = !core_kernel_text(uintaddr);
+	struct page *page;
+
+	if (module && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX))
+		page = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
+	else if (!module && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA))
+		page = virt_to_page(addr);
+	else
+		return addr;
+
+	if (flags)
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&patch_lock, *flags);
+
+	set_fixmap(fixmap, page_to_phys(page));
+
+	return (void *) (__fix_to_virt(fixmap) + (uintaddr & ~PAGE_MASK));
+}
+
+static void __kprobes patch_unmap(int fixmap, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+	clear_fixmap(fixmap);
+
+	if (flags)
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&patch_lock, *flags);
+}
Has the kbuildbot complained about this one yet?

  CHECK  arch/arm/kernel/patch.c
  arch/arm/kernel/patch.c:47:39: warning: context imbalance in
'patch_unmap' - unexpected unlock

I guess we're going to ignore it.

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