lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2014]   [Apr]   [8]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: mm: make text and rodata read-only
From
Date
On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 17:07 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> wrote:
[...]
> > You need a TLB flush. I had a flush_tlb_all() in my example patch,
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-April/244335.html,
> > but the following is probably nicer (on top of this patch):
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> > index 9bea524..a92c45a 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> > @@ -741,6 +741,8 @@ static inline bool arch_has_strict_perms(void)
> > addr += SECTION_SIZE) \
> > section_update(addr, perms[i].mask, \
> > perms[i].field); \
> > + \
> > + flush_tlb_kernel_range(perms[i].start, perms[i].end); \
> > } \
> > }
> >
>
> When I do this, I hang the system, and get a WARN due to the tlb call
> attempting to flush on all CPUs, I think:
>
> [ 34.246034] WARNING: at
> /mnt/host/source/src/third_party/kernel-next/kernel/smp.c:466
> smp_call_function_many+0xac/0x26c()
> ...
> [ 34.246617] Backtrace:
> [ 34.246697] [<c010d3b8>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x118) from
> [<c060b9d8>] (dump_stack+0x28/0x30)
> [ 34.246765] [<c060b9d8>] (dump_stack+0x28/0x30) from [<c0123044>]
> (warn_slowpath_null+0x44/0x5c)
> [ 34.246824] [<c0123044>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x44/0x5c) from
> [<c017426c>] (smp_call_function_many+0xac/0x26c)
> [ 34.246881] [<c017426c>] (smp_call_function_many+0xac/0x26c) from
> [<c0174468>] (smp_call_function+0x3c/0x48)
> [ 34.246937] [<c0174468>] (smp_call_function+0x3c/0x48) from
> [<c010c0fc>] (broadcast_tlb_a15_erratum+0x40/0x4c)
> [ 34.246994] [<c010c0fc>] (broadcast_tlb_a15_erratum+0x40/0x4c) from
> [<c010c590>] (flush_tlb_kernel_range+0x74/0xa0)
> [ 34.247046] [<c010c590>] (flush_tlb_kernel_range+0x74/0xa0) from
> [<c011403c>] (set_kernel_text_rw+0xd8/0xec)
> [ 34.247099] [<c011403c>] (set_kernel_text_rw+0xd8/0xec) from
> [<c010c878>] (__ftrace_modify_code+0x14/0x28)
> [ 34.247156] [<c010c878>] (__ftrace_modify_code+0x14/0x28) from
> [<c0184318>] (stop_machine_cpu_stop+0xc0/0x114)
> [ 34.247212] [<c0184318>] (stop_machine_cpu_stop+0xc0/0x114) from
> [<c01841cc>] (cpu_stopper_thread+0xd8/0x164)
> [ 34.247266] [<c01841cc>] (cpu_stopper_thread+0xd8/0x164) from
> [<c0145c14>] (kthread+0xc8/0xd8)
> [ 34.247323] [<c0145c14>] (kthread+0xc8/0xd8) from [<c0106118>]
> (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x20)
>
> Using local_flush_tlb_kernel_range() fixed it though.

What about if another CPU had a TLB entry with the old permissions in?
Or do you consider that the likelihood and consequences of that aren't
significant?

--
Tixy



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2014-04-08 15:21    [W:0.154 / U:0.300 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site