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Subject[PATCH] x86 Fix test_poke for vmalloced pages
The shadow vmap for DEBUG_RODATA kernel text modification uses virt_to_page to
get the pages from the pointer address.

However, I think vmalloc_to_page would be required in case the page is used for
modules.

Since only the core kernel text is marked read-only, use kernel_text_address()
to make sure we only shadow map the core kernel text, not modules.

It applies on top of the current x86 git tree.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6-x86/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-x86.orig/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c 2008-03-10 10:34:11.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-x86/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c 2008-03-10 10:50:38.000000000 -0400
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@
BUG_ON(len > sizeof(long));
BUG_ON((((long)addr + len - 1) & ~(sizeof(long) - 1))
- ((long)addr & ~(sizeof(long) - 1)));
- {
+ if (kernel_text_address((unsigned long)addr)) {
struct page *pages[2] = { virt_to_page(addr),
virt_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE) };
if (!pages[1])
@@ -522,6 +522,13 @@
memcpy(&vaddr[(unsigned long)addr & ~PAGE_MASK], opcode, len);
local_irq_restore(flags);
vunmap(vaddr);
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * modules are in vmalloc'ed memory, always writable.
+ */
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ memcpy(addr, opcode, len);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
}
sync_core();
/* Could also do a CLFLUSH here to speed up CPU recovery; but
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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