Le 26/02/2020 à 07:24, Russell Currey a écrit :
There are a couple of reasons that the set_memory() functions are
problematic when STRICT_KERNEL_RWX isn't enabled:

  - The linear mapping is a different size and apply_to_page_range()
        may modify a giant section, breaking everything

I don't understand.

  - patch_instruction() doesn't know to work around a page being marked
        RO, and will subsequently crash

Is patch_instruction() involved at all ?


The latter can be replicated by building a kernel with the set_memory()
patches but with STRICT_KERNEL_RWX off and running ftracetest.

Reported-by: Jordan Niethe <jniet...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <rus...@russell.cc>
---
v4: new

  arch/powerpc/mm/pageattr.c | 11 ++++++++---
  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pageattr.c
index ee6b5e3b7604..ff111930cf5e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -96,12 +96,17 @@ static int set_page_attr(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr, 
void *data)
int set_memory_attr(unsigned long addr, int numpages, pgprot_t prot)

Isn't it change_memory_attr() that is a problem for you ?

  {
-       unsigned long start = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, PAGE_SIZE);
-       unsigned long sz = numpages * PAGE_SIZE;
+       unsigned long start, size;
+
+       if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX))
+               return 0;


Doing this you break patch 7:
mark_initmem_nx() is called regardless of CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
__kernel_map_pages() depends on CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC which doesn't depend on CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX


if (!numpages)
                return 0;
- return apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, start, sz, set_page_attr,
+       start = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, PAGE_SIZE);
+       size = numpages * PAGE_SIZE;
+
+       return apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, start, size, set_page_attr,

You don't need to move start and size calculation and change the above.

                                   (void *)pgprot_val(prot));
  }


Christophe

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