On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 10:10:14AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

On 11/13/18 5:07 AM, Nadav Amit wrote:

quoted

There is no apparent reason not to use text_poke_early() while we are
during early-init and we do not patch code that might be on the stack
(i.e., we'll return to the middle of the patched code). This appears to
be the case of jump-labels, so do so.

This is required for the next patches that would set a temporary mm for
patching, which is initialized after some static-keys are
enabled/disabled.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
Cc: Dave Hansen <redacted>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Co-Developed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c b/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
index aac0c1f7e354..ed5fe274a7d8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c

@@ -52,7 +52,12 @@ static void __ref __jump_label_transform(struct jump_entry *entry,
 	jmp.offset = jump_entry_target(entry) -
 		     (jump_entry_code(entry) + JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE);
 
-	if (early_boot_irqs_disabled)
+	/*
+	 * As long as we're UP and not yet marked RO, we can use
+	 * text_poke_early; SYSTEM_BOOTING guarantees both, as we switch to
+	 * SYSTEM_SCHEDULING before going either.
+	 */
+	if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING)
 		poker = text_poke_early;
 
 	if (type == JUMP_LABEL_JMP) {

Can't we make this test in text_poke() directly, please?

He does that in 9/10 iirc.