From: lauraa@codeaurora.org (Laura Abbott)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: mm: keep rodata non-executable
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:54:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <533B43B2.1020805@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jLEA5u58yNe0k4BobWphAhEiREJ1ped30LVgDRPzOGy7A@mail.gmail.com>
On 4/1/2014 3:34 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:47 AM, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <tixy@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 16:21 -0600, Kees Cook wrote:
>>> For this stage, how about I make this "depends on KEXEC=n &&
>>> KPROBES=n"?
>>
>> There's also ftrace (CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE I believe) which modifies
>> kernel code with a call to probe_kernel_write(), which GDB uses as well.
>>
>> And grepping for the patch_text() function also shows
>> __arch_jump_label_transform() modifies kernel code. Not sure how and
>> when that gets used.
>
> Right, so, I'm trying to fix ftrace now, and I've hit a wall. It is as
> if changes to the kernel text PMD aren't being noticed after the
> kernel is running. Does anyone know why this might be happening?
>
> Code and details here:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/1/674
>
> -Kees
>
We had a flush_tlb_kernel_page after the pmd_flush in our out of tree code
which makes the text writeable in __patch_text.
Laura
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-01 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-14 1:04 [PATCH 0/2] ARM: mm: allow for stricter kernel memory perms Kees Cook
2014-02-14 1:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Kees Cook
2014-02-14 1:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: mm: keep rodata non-executable Kees Cook
2014-02-14 16:22 ` Dave Martin
2014-02-14 19:11 ` Kees Cook
2014-02-17 12:34 ` Dave Martin
2014-02-18 18:10 ` Kees Cook
2014-02-21 12:37 ` Dave Martin
2014-02-21 13:20 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-21 22:09 ` Kees Cook
2014-03-13 19:07 ` Kees Cook
2014-03-23 18:32 ` Laura Abbott
2014-03-23 22:20 ` Kees Cook
2014-03-23 18:47 ` Laura Abbott
2014-03-23 22:21 ` Kees Cook
2014-03-23 22:37 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-03-23 22:56 ` Kees Cook
2014-03-24 10:47 ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2014-03-25 22:11 ` Rabin Vincent
2014-04-01 22:34 ` Kees Cook
2014-04-01 22:54 ` Laura Abbott [this message]
2014-04-01 22:59 ` Kees Cook
2014-03-24 12:30 ` Dave Martin
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