From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
To: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org>,
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/32] mm: Bring back vmalloc_exec
Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 04:45:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f049870-1684-1875-3cdc-73e1323ffdb0@csgroup.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZGFyHY6pH9CU4fzf@moria.home.lan>
Le 15/05/2023 à 01:43, Kent Overstreet a écrit :
> On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 06:39:00PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> I addition to that, I still don't understand why you bring back
>> vmalloc_exec() instead of using module_alloc().
>>
>> As reminded in a previous response, some architectures like powerpc/32s
>> cannot allocate exec memory in vmalloc space. On powerpc this is because
>> exec protection is performed on 256Mbytes segments and vmalloc space is
>> flagged non-exec. Some other architectures have a constraint on distance
>> between kernel core text and other text.
>>
>> Today you have for instance kprobes in the kernel that need dynamic exec
>> memory. It uses module_alloc() to get it. On some architectures you also
>> have ftrace that gets some exec memory with module_alloc().
>>
>> So, I still don't understand why you cannot use module_alloc() and need
>> vmalloc_exec() instead.
>
> Because I didn't know about it :)
>
> Looks like that is indeed the appropriate interface (if a bit poorly
> named), I'll switch to using that, thanks.
>
> It'll still need to be exported, but it looks like the W|X attribute
> discussion is not really germane here since it's what other in kernel
> users are using, and there's nothing particularly special about how
> bcachefs is using it compared to them.
The W|X subject is applicable.
If you look into powerpc's module_alloc(), you'll see that when
CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX is selected, module_alloc() allocate
PAGE_KERNEL memory. It is then up to the consumer to change it to RO-X.
See for instance in arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c:
void *alloc_insn_page(void)
{
void *page;
page = module_alloc(PAGE_SIZE);
if (!page)
return NULL;
if (strict_module_rwx_enabled())
set_memory_rox((unsigned long)page, 1);
return page;
}
Christophe
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2023-05-09 17:24 ` Kent Overstreet
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2023-05-09 19:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-09 19:57 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 20:18 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 20:27 ` Waiman Long
2023-05-09 20:35 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 21:37 ` Waiman Long
2023-05-10 8:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-10 20:38 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-11 8:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-11 9:32 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-12 20:49 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 04/32] locking: SIX locks (shared/intent/exclusive) Kent Overstreet
2023-05-11 12:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2023-05-12 20:58 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-12 22:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2023-05-12 23:26 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-12 23:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2023-05-13 0:17 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-13 0:45 ` Eric Biggers
2023-05-13 0:51 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-14 12:15 ` Jeff Layton
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2023-05-23 13:34 ` Jan Kara
2023-05-23 13:34 ` [Cluster-devel] " Jan Kara
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2023-05-23 16:35 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-23 16:35 ` Kent Overstreet
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2023-05-24 8:09 ` Kent Overstreet
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2023-05-25 20:50 ` Kent Overstreet
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2023-05-25 22:25 ` Andreas Grünbacher
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2023-05-25 23:20 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-25 23:20 ` Kent Overstreet
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2023-05-26 0:05 ` Andreas Grünbacher
2023-05-26 0:39 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-26 0:39 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-26 8:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2023-05-26 8:38 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-26 8:38 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-23 16:49 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-23 16:49 ` [Cluster-devel] " Kent Overstreet
2023-05-25 8:47 ` Jan Kara
2023-05-25 8:47 ` [Cluster-devel] " Jan Kara
2023-05-25 21:36 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-25 21:36 ` [Cluster-devel] " Kent Overstreet
2023-05-25 22:45 ` Andreas Grünbacher
2023-05-25 22:45 ` [Cluster-devel] " Andreas Grünbacher
2023-05-25 22:04 ` Andreas Grünbacher
2023-05-25 22:04 ` [Cluster-devel] " Andreas Grünbacher
2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 07/32] mm: Bring back vmalloc_exec Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 18:19 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2023-05-09 20:15 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 20:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-09 21:12 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2023-05-09 21:29 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-10 6:48 ` Eric Biggers
2023-05-12 18:36 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-13 1:57 ` Eric Biggers
2023-05-13 19:28 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-14 5:45 ` Kent Overstreet
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2023-05-15 5:38 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-15 6:13 ` Eric Biggers
2023-05-15 6:18 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-15 7:13 ` Eric Biggers
2023-05-15 7:26 ` Kent Overstreet
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2023-05-21 22:04 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-15 10:29 ` David Laight
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2023-05-09 21:43 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-05-09 21:54 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-11 5:33 ` Theodore Ts'o
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2023-06-20 22:43 ` Nadav Amit
2023-06-21 1:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 08/32] fs: factor out d_mark_tmpfile() Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 09/32] block: Add some exports for bcachefs Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 10/32] block: Allow bio_iov_iter_get_pages() with bio->bi_bdev unset Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 11/32] block: Bring back zero_fill_bio_iter Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 12/32] block: Rework bio_for_each_segment_all() Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 13/32] block: Rework bio_for_each_folio_all() Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 14/32] block: Don't block on s_umount from __invalidate_super() Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 15/32] bcache: move closures to lib/ Kent Overstreet
2023-05-10 1:10 ` Randy Dunlap
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2023-05-09 17:05 ` Coly Li
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2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 17/32] closures: closure_wait_event() Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 18/32] closures: closure_nr_remaining() Kent Overstreet
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2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 20/32] vfs: factor out inode hash head calculation Kent Overstreet
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2023-05-23 22:53 ` Dave Chinner
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2023-05-24 8:31 ` Christian Brauner
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2023-05-23 9:27 ` (subset) " Christian Brauner
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2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 28/32] stacktrace: Export stack_trace_save_tsk Kent Overstreet
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2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 29/32] lib/string_helpers: string_get_size() now returns characters wrote Kent Overstreet
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2023-07-12 22:38 ` Kees Cook
2023-07-12 23:53 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-07-12 20:23 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-09 16:56 ` [PATCH 30/32] lib: Export errname Kent Overstreet
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