Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 6 authors, 2020-06-16

Re: hv_hypercall_pg page permissios

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2020-06-16 10:21:02
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:55:49AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
+	hv_hypercall_pg = __vmalloc_node_range(PAGE_SIZE, 1, VMALLOC_START,
+			VMALLOC_END, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_RX,
+			VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS, NUMA_NO_NODE, __func__);
I think that's wrong, they seem to want to CALL into that page, and that
doesn't unconditionally work for any page in the vmalloc range. This
really ought to use module_alloc() to guarantees it gets a page in the
correct range.
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