From: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>,
"Dock, Deneen T" <deneen.t.dock@intel.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/20] x86/alternative: use temporary mm for text poking
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 17:54:56 +0000
Message-ID: <6D321F51-6B19-46F6-91AC-74248A542BA0@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190205123533.GN21801@zn.tnic>
> On Feb 5, 2019, at 4:35 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:31:46PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> So while in general I agree with BUG_ON() being undesirable, I think
>> liberal sprinking in text_poke() is fine; you really _REALLY_ want this
>> to work or fail loudly. Text corruption is just painful.
>
> Ok. It would be good to have the gist of this sentiment in a comment
> above it so that it is absolutely clear why we're doing it.
I added a short comment for v3 above each BUG_ON().
> And since text_poke() can't fail, then it doesn't need a retval too.
> AFAICT, nothing is actually using it.
As Peter said, this is addressed in a separate patch (one patch per logical
change).
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2019-01-29 0:34 [PATCH v2 00/20] Merge text_poke fixes and executable lockdowns Rick Edgecombe
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 01/20] Fix "x86/alternatives: Lockdep-enforce text_mutex in text_poke*()" Rick Edgecombe
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 02/20] x86/jump_label: Use text_poke_early() during early init Rick Edgecombe
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 03/20] x86/mm: temporary mm struct Rick Edgecombe
2019-01-31 11:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-31 22:19 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-01 0:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-01 0:25 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-04 14:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 04/20] fork: provide a function for copying init_mm Rick Edgecombe
2019-02-05 8:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-05 9:03 ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 05/20] x86/alternative: initializing temporary mm for patching Rick Edgecombe
2019-02-05 9:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-11 0:39 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-11 5:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-11 18:04 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-11 19:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-11 19:18 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-11 22:47 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-12 18:23 ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 06/20] x86/alternative: use temporary mm for text poking Rick Edgecombe
2019-02-05 9:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-05 11:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-05 12:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-05 13:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-05 17:54 ` Nadav Amit [this message]
2019-02-05 13:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 07/20] x86/kgdb: avoid redundant comparison of patched code Rick Edgecombe
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 08/20] x86/ftrace: set trampoline pages as executable Rick Edgecombe
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 09/20] x86/kprobes: instruction pages initialization enhancements Rick Edgecombe
2019-02-11 18:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-11 19:36 ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 10/20] x86: avoid W^X being broken during modules loading Rick Edgecombe
2019-02-11 18:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-11 18:45 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-11 19:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-11 19:09 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-11 19:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-11 19:27 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-11 19:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-11 20:32 ` Nadav Amit
2019-03-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] x86/cpufeature: Remove __pure attribute to _static_cpu_has() Borislav Petkov
2019-03-07 16:43 ` hpa
2019-03-07 17:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-07 7:29 ` [PATCH v2 10/20] x86: avoid W^X being broken during modules loading Borislav Petkov
2019-03-07 16:53 ` hpa
2019-03-07 17:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-07 20:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-07 20:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 11/20] x86/jump-label: remove support for custom poker Rick Edgecombe
2019-02-11 18:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 12/20] x86/alternative: Remove the return value of text_poke_*() Rick Edgecombe
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 13/20] Add set_alias_ function and x86 implementation Rick Edgecombe
2019-02-11 19:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-11 19:27 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2019-02-11 22:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-12 0:01 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 14/20] mm: Make hibernate handle unmapped pages Rick Edgecombe
2019-02-19 11:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-19 21:28 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2019-02-20 16:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 15/20] vmalloc: New flags for safe vfree on special perms Rick Edgecombe
2019-02-19 12:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-19 19:42 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2019-02-20 16:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 16/20] modules: Use vmalloc special flag Rick Edgecombe
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 17/20] bpf: " Rick Edgecombe
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 18/20] x86/ftrace: " Rick Edgecombe
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 19/20] x86/kprobes: " Rick Edgecombe
2019-01-29 0:34 ` [PATCH v2 20/20] x86/alternative: comment about module removal races Rick Edgecombe
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