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From: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
To: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Haren Myneni <haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Avoid code patching freed init sections
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:05:38 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <794308ed6aa6dcccf96e10bb0e3fa8d2dab9adff.camel@neuling.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180910115457.60366160@naga.suse.cz>


> > +	/* Make sure we aren't patching a freed init section */
> > +	if (in_init_section(patch_addr) && init_freed())
> > +		return 0;
> > +
>=20
> Do we even need the init_freed() check?

Maybe not.  If userspace isn't up, then maybe it's ok to skip.

> What user input can we process in init-only code?

See the stack trace in the commit message. It's a weird case for KVM guests=
 in
KVM PR mode.=20

That's the only case I can found so far.

> Also it would be nice to write the function+offset of the skipped patch
> location into the kernel log.

OK. I'll update.

Mikey

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-10 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-10  5:44 [PATCH] powerpc: Avoid code patching freed init sections Michael Neuling
2018-09-10  8:10 ` Michal Suchánek
2018-09-10 10:01   ` Michael Neuling
2018-09-10  9:54 ` Michal Suchánek
2018-09-10 10:05   ` Michael Neuling [this message]
2018-09-10 10:16     ` Christophe LEROY
2018-09-10 10:44       ` Michal Suchánek
2018-09-10 22:38     ` Paul Mackerras

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