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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
	"hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>,
	song@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/32] mm: Bring back vmalloc_exec
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 18:44:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230517154412.GC4967@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZGTiI49s8+YjBxVX@moria.home.lan>

On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 10:18:11AM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 05:04:27PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> 
> And I'm really curious why text_poke() is needed at all. Seems like we
> could just use kmap_local() to create a temporary writeable mapping,

On 64 bit kmap_local_page() is aliased to page_address() and does not map
anything. text_poke() is needed to actually create a temporary writable
mapping without touching page tables in vmalloc and/or direct map.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-17 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20230509165657.1735798-1-kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
     [not found] ` <20230509165657.1735798-8-kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
2023-05-10 15:05   ` [PATCH 07/32] mm: Bring back vmalloc_exec Johannes Thumshirn
2023-05-11 22:28     ` Kees Cook
2023-05-12 18:41       ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-16 21:02         ` Kees Cook
2023-05-16 21:20           ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-16 21:47             ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-05-16 21:57               ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-17  5:28               ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-17 14:04                 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-05-17 14:18                   ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-17 15:44                     ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2023-05-17 15:59                       ` Kent Overstreet
2023-06-17  4:13             ` Andy Lutomirski
2023-06-17 15:34               ` Kent Overstreet
2023-06-17 19:19                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2023-06-17 20:08                   ` Kent Overstreet
2023-06-17 20:35                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2023-06-19 19:45                 ` Kees Cook
2023-06-20  0:39                   ` Kent Overstreet
     [not found] ` <20230509165657.1735798-30-kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
2023-07-12 19:58   ` [PATCH 29/32] lib/string_helpers: string_get_size() now returns characters wrote Kees Cook
2023-07-12 20:19     ` Kent Overstreet
2023-07-12 22:38       ` Kees Cook
2023-07-12 23:53         ` Kent Overstreet
2023-07-12 20:23     ` Kent Overstreet

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