[PATCH v2 4/9] arm64: insn: avoid virt_to_page() translations on core kernel symbols
From: Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
Date: 2016-03-30 14:46:24
Also in:
linux-arm-kernel
Subsystem:
arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds
Before restricting virt_to_page() to the linear mapping, ensure that the text patching code does not use it to resolve references into the core kernel text, which is mapped in the vmalloc area. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <redacted> --- arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
index 7371455160e5..368c08290dd8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ static void __kprobes *patch_map(void *addr, int fixmap) 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); + page = pfn_to_page(PHYS_PFN(__pa(addr))); else return addr;
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2.5.0
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