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From: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
	Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/11] s390/module: Use s390_kernel_write() for late relocations
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 14:27:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200507142744.05271ac0@thinkpad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.2005071159490.25812@cbobk.fhfr.pm>

On Thu, 7 May 2020 12:00:13 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Apr 2020, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> 
> > From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > 
> > Because of late module patching, a livepatch module needs to be able to
> > apply some of its relocations well after it has been loaded.  Instead of
> > playing games with module_{dis,en}able_ro(), use existing text poking
> > mechanisms to apply relocations after module loading.
> > 
> > So far only x86, s390 and Power have HAVE_LIVEPATCH but only the first
> > two also have STRICT_MODULE_RWX.
> > 
> > This will allow removal of the last module_disable_ro() usage in
> > livepatch.  The ultimate goal is to completely disallow making
> > executable mappings writable.
> > 
> > [ jpoimboe: Split up patches.  Use mod state to determine whether
> > 	    memcpy() can be used.  Test and add fixes. ]
> > 
> > Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> > Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
> > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
> > Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
> 
> Could we please get an Ack / Reviewed-by: for this patch from s390 folks?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Looks pretty straightforward, and using s390_kernel_write() is OK, so

Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> # s390

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-07 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-29 15:24 [PATCH v4 00/11] livepatch,module: Remove .klp.arch and module_disable_ro() Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 15:24 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] livepatch: Disallow vmlinux.ko Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 15:24 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] livepatch: Apply vmlinux-specific KLP relocations early Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 15:24 ` [PATCH v4 03/11] livepatch: Remove .klp.arch Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 15:24 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] livepatch: Prevent module-specific KLP rela sections from referencing vmlinux symbols Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 15:24 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] s390: Change s390_kernel_write() return type to match memcpy() Josh Poimboeuf
2020-05-07 13:36   ` Jiri Kosina
2020-05-07 16:01     ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-04-29 15:24 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] s390/module: Use s390_kernel_write() for late relocations Josh Poimboeuf
2020-05-07 10:00   ` Jiri Kosina
2020-05-07 12:27     ` Gerald Schaefer [this message]
2020-04-29 15:24 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] x86/module: Use text_poke() " Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 15:24 ` [PATCH v4 08/11] livepatch: Remove module_disable_ro() usage Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 15:24 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] module: Remove module_disable_ro() Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 15:24 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] x86/module: Use text_mutex in apply_relocate_add() Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 15:24 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] module: Make module_enable_ro() static again Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-30 11:10   ` Jessica Yu
2020-04-30 11:35     ` Miroslav Benes
2020-04-30 11:40       ` Jessica Yu
2020-04-30 12:23         ` Jessica Yu
2020-06-05 13:24   ` Guenter Roeck
2020-06-05 14:20     ` Jessica Yu
2020-06-05 14:39       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-30 11:33 ` [PATCH v4 00/11] livepatch,module: Remove .klp.arch and module_disable_ro() Jessica Yu
2020-05-04 22:20 ` Jiri Kosina
2020-05-07 22:17 ` Jiri Kosina

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