On 11/4/25 5:44 AM, Ryan Roberts wrote:

On 04/11/2025 13:14, Ryan Roberts wrote:

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On 03/11/2025 19:45, Yang Shi wrote:

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Since commit a166563e7ec3 ("arm64: mm: support large block mapping when
rodata=full"), __change_memory_common has more chance to fail due to
memory allocation fialure when splitting page table. So check the return
value of set_memory_rox(), then bail out if it fails otherwise we may have
RW memory mapping for kprobes insn page.

Fixes: 195a1b7d8388 ("arm64: kprobes: call set_memory_rox() for kprobe page")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <redacted>

This patch looks correct so:

Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>

Thank you.

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but, I think I see an separate issue below...

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---
I actually epxected 195a1b7d8388 ("arm64: kprobes: call set_memory_rox()
for kprobe page") can be merged in 6.17-rcX, so I just restored it to
before commit 10d5e97c1bf8 ("arm64: use PAGE_KERNEL_ROX directly in
alloc_insn_page"), however it turned out to be merged in 6.18-rc1 and it
is after commit a166563e7ec3 ("arm64: mm: support large block mapping when
rodata=full"). So I made the fix tag point to it.
And I don't think we need to backport this patch to pre-6.18.

  arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 5 ++++-
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
index 8ab6104a4883..43a0361a8bf0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c

@@ -49,7 +49,10 @@ void *alloc_insn_page(void)
  	addr = execmem_alloc(EXECMEM_KPROBES, PAGE_SIZE);
  	if (!addr)
  		return NULL;
-	set_memory_rox((unsigned long)addr, 1);
+	if (set_memory_rox((unsigned long)addr, 1)) {

How does x get cleared when freeing this memory? arm64's set_memory_x() sets
PTE_MAYBE_GP and clears PTE_PXN. The only function that will revert that is
set_memory_nx(). But that only gets called from module_enable_data_nx() (which I
don't think is applicable here) and execmem_force_rw() - but only if
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_EXECMEM_ROX is enabled, which I don't think it is for arm64?

So I think once we flip a page executable, it will be executable forever?

Do we need to modify set_direct_map_default_noflush() to make the memory nx?
Then vm_reset_perms() will fix it up at vfree time?

Dev just pointed this out to me. Panic over!

Aha, yes, it doesn't clear PXN at all.

Thanks,
Yang

static int change_memory_common(unsigned long addr, int numpages,
				pgprot_t set_mask, pgprot_t clear_mask)
{
	...

	/*
	 * If we are manipulating read-only permissions, apply the same
	 * change to the linear mapping of the pages that back this VM area.
	 */
	if (rodata_full && (pgprot_val(set_mask) == PTE_RDONLY ||
			    pgprot_val(clear_mask) == PTE_RDONLY)) {
		for (i = 0; i < area->nr_pages; i++) {
			__change_memory_common(...);
		}
	}

	...
}

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Thanks,
Ryan

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+		execmem_free(addr);
+		return NULL;
+	}
  	return addr;
  }