[PATCH v2 2/5] powerpc/mm: Fix kernel RAM protection after freeing unused memory on PPC32

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Fri Jul 7 20:06:40 AEST 2017


As seen below, allthough the init sections have been freed, the
associated memory area is still marked as executable in the
page tables.

~ dmesg
[    5.860093] Freeing unused kernel memory: 592K (c0570000 - c0604000)

~ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables
---[ Start of kernel VM ]---
0xc0000000-0xc0497fff        4704K  rw  X  present dirty accessed shared
0xc0498000-0xc056ffff         864K  rw     present dirty accessed shared
0xc0570000-0xc059ffff         192K  rw  X  present dirty accessed shared
0xc05a0000-0xc7ffffff      125312K  rw     present dirty accessed shared
---[ vmalloc() Area ]---

This patch fixes that.

The implementation is done by reusing the change_page_attr()
function implemented for CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c        |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h   |  3 +++
 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c | 13 ++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index 8541f18694a4..b8cf4056d0d7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -403,6 +403,7 @@ void free_initmem(void)
 {
 	ppc_md.progress = ppc_printk_progress;
 	free_initmem_default(POISON_FREE_INITMEM);
+	remap_init_ram();
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h
index d46128b22150..207af7ad3bda 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ extern void _tlbia(void);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
 
 extern void mapin_ram(void);
+void remap_init_ram(void);
 extern void setbat(int index, unsigned long virt, phys_addr_t phys,
 		   unsigned int size, pgprot_t prot);
 
@@ -105,6 +106,8 @@ struct hash_pte;
 extern struct hash_pte *Hash, *Hash_end;
 extern unsigned long Hash_size, Hash_mask;
 
+#else
+static inline void remap_init_ram(void) {}
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC32 */
 
 extern unsigned long ioremap_bot;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
index 991036f818bb..a87a0b12b032 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
@@ -323,8 +323,6 @@ get_pteptr(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t **ptep, pmd_t **pmdp)
         return(retval);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
-
 static int __change_page_attr_noflush(struct page *page, pgprot_t prot)
 {
 	pte_t *kpte;
@@ -347,7 +345,7 @@ static int __change_page_attr_noflush(struct page *page, pgprot_t prot)
 /*
  * Change the page attributes of an page in the linear mapping.
  *
- * THIS CONFLICTS WITH BAT MAPPINGS, DEBUG USE ONLY
+ * THIS DOES NOTHING WITH BAT MAPPINGS, DEBUG USE ONLY
  */
 static int change_page_attr(struct page *page, int numpages, pgprot_t prot)
 {
@@ -368,7 +366,16 @@ static int change_page_attr(struct page *page, int numpages, pgprot_t prot)
 	return err;
 }
 
+void remap_init_ram(void)
+{
+	struct page *page = virt_to_page(_sinittext);
+	unsigned long numpages = PFN_UP((unsigned long)_einittext) -
+				 PFN_DOWN((unsigned long)_sinittext);
+
+	change_page_attr(page, numpages, PAGE_KERNEL);
+}
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 void __kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable)
 {
 	if (PageHighMem(page))
-- 
2.12.0



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