On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 6:58 PM Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On arm64, modules are allocated from a 128 MB window which is close to
> the core kernel, so that relative direct branches are guaranteed to be
> in range (except in some KASLR configurations). Also, module_alloc()
> is in charge of allocating KASAN shadow memory when running with KASAN
> enabled.
>
> This means that the way BPF reuses module_alloc()/module_memfree() is
> undesirable on arm64 (and potentially other architectures as well),
> and so this series refactors BPF's use of those functions to permit
> architectures to change this behavior.
>
> Patch #1 fixes a bug introduced during the merge window, where the new
> alloc/free tracking does not account for memory that is freed by some
> arch code.
>
> Patch #2 refactors the freeing path so that architectures can switch to
> something other than module_memfree().
>
> Patch #3 does the same for module_alloc().
>
> Patch #4 implements the new alloc/free overrides for arm64

Except a minor comment, the whole patch set looks good to me.
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <y...@fb.com>

>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgeco...@intel.com>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jann Horn <ja...@google.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
>
> Cc: Jessica Yu <j...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <r...@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.bur...@mips.com>
> Cc: James Hogan <jho...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net>
> Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-m...@linux-mips.org
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: sparcli...@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org
>
> Ard Biesheuvel (4):
>   bpf: account for freed JIT allocations in arch code
>   net/bpf: refactor freeing of executable allocations
>   bpf: add __weak hook for allocating executable memory
>   arm64/bpf: don't allocate BPF JIT programs in module memory
>
>  arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c     | 11 ++++++++++
>  arch/mips/net/bpf_jit.c           |  7 ++-----
>  arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp.c   |  7 ++-----
>  arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp64.c | 12 +++--------
>  arch/sparc/net/bpf_jit_comp_32.c  |  7 ++-----
>  kernel/bpf/core.c                 | 22 ++++++++++----------
>  6 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>

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