[PATCH v4 05/15] mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free()

[Song Liu]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 1:00 PM Mike Rapoport <rppt at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 10:32:39AM -0700, Song Liu wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 10:03 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt at kernel.org> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > >
> > > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240411160526.2093408-1-rppt@kernel.org
> > > >
> > > > For the ROX to work, we need different users (module text, kprobe, etc.) to have
> > > > the same execmem_range. From [1]:
> > > >
> > > > static void *execmem_cache_alloc(struct execmem_range *range, size_t size)
> > > > {
> > > > ...
> > > >        p = __execmem_cache_alloc(size);
> > > >        if (p)
> > > >                return p;
> > > >       err = execmem_cache_populate(range, size);
> > > > ...
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > We are calling __execmem_cache_alloc() without range. For this to work,
> > > > we can only call execmem_cache_alloc() with one execmem_range.
> > >
> > > Actually, on x86 this will "just work" because everything shares the same
> > > address space :)
> > >
> > > The 2M pages in the cache will be in the modules space, so
> > > __execmem_cache_alloc() will always return memory from that address space.
> > >
> > > For other architectures this indeed needs to be fixed with passing the
> > > range to __execmem_cache_alloc() and limiting search in the cache for that
> > > range.
> >
> > I think we at least need the "map to" concept (initially proposed by Thomas)
> > to get this work. For example, EXECMEM_BPF and EXECMEM_KPROBE
> > maps to EXECMEM_MODULE_TEXT, so that all these actually share
> > the same range.
>
> Why?

IIUC, we need to update __execmem_cache_alloc() to take a range pointer as
input. module text will use "range" for EXECMEM_MODULE_TEXT, while kprobe
will use "range" for EXECMEM_KPROBE. Without "map to" concept or sharing
the "range" object, we will have to compare different range parameters to check
we can share cached pages between module text and kprobe, which is not
efficient. Did I miss something?

Thanks,
Song