[PATCH 1/2] kprobes: Allow architectures to override optinsn page allocation

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Thu May 13 00:29:26 AEST 2021


Some architectures like powerpc require a non standard
allocation of optinsn page, because module pages are
too far from the kernel for direct branches.

Define weak alloc_optinsn_page() and free_optinsn_page(), that
fall back on alloc_insn_page() and free_insn_page() when not
overriden by the architecture.

Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
---
 kernel/kprobes.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index 745f08fdd7a6..8c0a6fdef771 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -321,11 +321,21 @@ int kprobe_cache_get_kallsym(struct kprobe_insn_cache *c, unsigned int *symnum,
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_OPTPROBES
+void __weak *alloc_optinsn_page(void)
+{
+	return alloc_insn_page();
+}
+
+void __weak free_optinsn_page(void *page)
+{
+	free_insn_page(page);
+}
+
 /* For optimized_kprobe buffer */
 struct kprobe_insn_cache kprobe_optinsn_slots = {
 	.mutex = __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(kprobe_optinsn_slots.mutex),
-	.alloc = alloc_insn_page,
-	.free = free_insn_page,
+	.alloc = alloc_optinsn_page,
+	.free = free_optinsn_page,
 	.sym = KPROBE_OPTINSN_PAGE_SYM,
 	.pages = LIST_HEAD_INIT(kprobe_optinsn_slots.pages),
 	/* .insn_size is initialized later */
-- 
2.25.0



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