From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Edgecombe Subject: [PATCH v4 20/23] x86/kprobes: Use vmalloc special flag Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 11:58:02 -0700 Message-Id: <20190422185805.1169-21-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20190422185805.1169-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> References: <20190422185805.1169-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> To: Borislav Petkov , Andy Lutomirski , Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, Thomas Gleixner , Nadav Amit , Dave Hansen , Peter Zijlstra , linux_dti@icloud.com, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, will.deacon@arm.com, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, kristen@linux.intel.com, deneen.t.dock@intel.com, Rick Edgecombe , Masami Hiramatsu List-ID: Use new flag VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS for handling freeing of special permissioned memory in vmalloc and remove places where memory was set NX and RW before freeing which is no longer needed. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe --- arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c index 1591852d3ac4..136695e4434a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c @@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ void *alloc_insn_page(void) if (!page) return NULL; + set_vm_flush_reset_perms(page); /* * First make the page read-only, and only then make it executable to * prevent it from being W+X in between. @@ -452,12 +453,6 @@ void *alloc_insn_page(void) /* Recover page to RW mode before releasing it */ void free_insn_page(void *page) { - /* - * First make the page non-executable, and only then make it writable to - * prevent it from being W+X in between. - */ - set_memory_nx((unsigned long)page, 1); - set_memory_rw((unsigned long)page, 1); module_memfree(page); } -- 2.17.1