Hello,

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 06:06:29PM +0100, Kees Cook wrote:
> From: Rabin Vincent <[email protected]>
> 
> Use fixmaps for text patching when the kernel text is read-only,
> inspired by x86.  This makes jump labels and kprobes work with the
> currently available CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX and the upcoming
> CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA options.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <[email protected]>
> [kees: fixed up for merge with "arm: use generic fixmap.h"]
> [kees: added parse acquire/release annotations to pass C=1 builds]
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>

[...]

> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c b/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c
> index 07314af47733..a1dce690446a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c
> @@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/spinlock.h>
>  #include <linux/kprobes.h>
> +#include <linux/mm.h>
>  #include <linux/stop_machine.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
> +#include <asm/fixmap.h>
>  #include <asm/smp_plat.h>
>  #include <asm/opcodes.h>
>  
> @@ -13,21 +16,77 @@ struct patch {
>       unsigned int insn;
>  };
>  
> -void __kprobes __patch_text(void *addr, unsigned int insn)
> +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(patch_lock);
> +
> +static void __kprobes *patch_map(void *addr, int fixmap, unsigned long 
> *flags)
> +     __acquires(&patch_lock)
> +{
> +     unsigned int uintaddr = (uintptr_t) addr;
> +     bool module = !core_kernel_text(uintaddr);
> +     struct page *page;
> +
> +     if (module && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX))
> +             page = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
> +     else if (!module && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA))
> +             page = virt_to_page(addr);
> +     else
> +             return addr;
> +
> +     if (flags)
> +             spin_lock_irqsave(&patch_lock, *flags);
> +     else
> +             __acquire(&patch_lock);

I don't understand the locking here. Why is it conditional, why do we need
to disable interrupts, and are you just racing against yourself?

> +     set_fixmap(fixmap, page_to_phys(page));

set_fixmap does TLB invalidation, right? I think that means it can block on
11MPCore and A15 w/ the TLBI erratum, so it's not safe to call this with
interrupts disabled anyway.

Will
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