Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 6 authors, 2024-01-31

Re: [PATCH 1/3] init: Declare rodata_enabled and mark_rodata_ro() at all time

From: Christophe Leroy <hidden>
Date: 2024-01-31 06:53:16
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Le 30/01/2024 à 21:27, Luis Chamberlain a écrit :
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:48:11PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
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Dear All,

On 30.01.2024 12:03, Christophe Leroy wrote:
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Le 30/01/2024 à 10:16, Chen-Yu Tsai a écrit :
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 12:09:50PM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:02:46AM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
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Declaring rodata_enabled and mark_rodata_ro() at all time
helps removing related #ifdefery in C files.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
Very nice cleanup, thanks!, applied and pushed

     Luis
On next-20240130, which has your modules-next branch, and thus this
series and the other "module: Use set_memory_rox()" series applied,
my kernel crashes in some very weird way. Reverting your branch
makes the crash go away.

I thought I'd report it right away. Maybe you folks would know what's
happening here? This is on arm64.
That's strange, it seems to bug in module_bug_finalize() which is
_before_ calls to module_enable_ro() and such.

Can you try to revert the 6 patches one by one to see which one
introduces the problem ?

In reality, only patch 677bfb9db8a3 really change things. Other ones are
more on less only cleanup.
I've also run into this issue with today's (20240130) linux-next on my
test farm. The issue is not fully reproducible, so it was a bit hard to
bisect it automatically. I've spent some time on manual testing and it
looks that reverting the following 2 commits on top of linux-next fixes
the problem:

65929884f868 ("modules: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX around
rodata_enabled")
677bfb9db8a3 ("module: Don't ignore errors from set_memory_XX()")

This in fact means that commit 677bfb9db8a3 is responsible for this
regression, as 65929884f868 has to be reverted only because the latter
depends on it. Let me know what I can do to help debugging this issue.
Thanks for the bisect, I've reset my tree to commit
3559ad395bf02 ("module: Change module_enable_{nx/x/ro}() to more
explicit names") for now then, so to remove those commits.
The problem being identified in commit 677bfb9db8a3 ("module: Don't 
ignore errors from set_memory_XX()"), you can keep/re-apply the series 
[PATCH 1/3] init: Declare rodata_enabled and mark_rodata_ro() at all time.

Christophe
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