Thread (54 messages) 54 messages, 9 authors, 2018-12-07

Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/modules: Make x86 allocs to flush when free

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2018-11-28 23:11:50
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:07:54 -0800 Rick Edgecombe [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Change the module allocations to flush before freeing the pages.

...
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
 	p = __vmalloc_node_range(size, MODULE_ALIGN,
 				    MODULES_VADDR + get_module_load_offset(),
 				    MODULES_END, GFP_KERNEL,
-				    PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, 0, NUMA_NO_NODE,
-				    __builtin_return_address(0));
+				    PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, VM_IMMEDIATE_UNMAP,
+				    NUMA_NO_NODE, __builtin_return_address(0));
 	if (p && (kasan_module_alloc(p, size) < 0)) {
 		vfree(p);
 		return NULL;
Should any other architectures do this?
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