[RFC PATCH] powerpc/lib: Fixing use a temporary mm for code patching

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Fri Mar 27 01:42:15 AEDT 2020


This patch fixes the RFC series identified below.
It fixes three points:
- Failure with CONFIG_PPC_KUAP
- Failure to write do to lack of DIRTY bit set on the 8xx
- Inadequaly complex WARN post verification

However, it has an impact on the CPU load. Here is the time
needed on an 8xx to run the ftrace selftests without and
with this series:
- Without CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX		==> 38 seconds
- With CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX			==> 40 seconds
- With CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX + this series	==> 43 seconds

Link: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/list/?series=166003
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
---
 arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
index f156132e8975..4ccff427592e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ static int map_patch(const void *addr, struct patch_mapping *patch_mapping)
 	}
 
 	pte = mk_pte(page, pgprot);
+	pte = pte_mkdirty(pte);
 	set_pte_at(patching_mm, patching_addr, ptep, pte);
 
 	init_temp_mm(&patch_mapping->temp_mm, patching_mm);
@@ -168,7 +169,9 @@ static int do_patch_instruction(unsigned int *addr, unsigned int instr)
 			(offset_in_page((unsigned long)addr) /
 				sizeof(unsigned int));
 
+	allow_write_to_user(patch_addr, sizeof(instr));
 	__patch_instruction(addr, instr, patch_addr);
+	prevent_write_to_user(patch_addr, sizeof(instr));
 
 	err = unmap_patch(&patch_mapping);
 	if (err)
@@ -179,7 +182,7 @@ static int do_patch_instruction(unsigned int *addr, unsigned int instr)
 	 * think we just wrote.
 	 * XXX: BUG_ON() instead?
 	 */
-	WARN_ON(memcmp(addr, &instr, sizeof(instr)));
+	WARN_ON(*addr != instr);
 
 out:
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
-- 
2.25.0



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