Re: [patch 2/2] kprobes x86_64 quick fix mark-ro-data

S. P. Prasanna
2007-06-19T14:31:50Z

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:44:30AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 09:30 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > * Arjan van de Ven (arjan@infradead.org) wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:38 +0530, S. P. Prasanna wrote:
> > > > This patch is a quick fix for x86_64 to enable kprobes only if DEBUG_RODATA is
> > > > not configured. Since DEBUG_RODATA markes the kernel text pages as read-only.
> > >
> > >
> > > it does??
> > >
> > > I don't seem to be able to find this in the source code.....
> > >
>
> > See arch/x86_64/mm/init.c:mark_rodata_ro().
>
> eh woops
>
>
> PATCH] x86: tighten kernel image page access rights
> author
> Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
>
> Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:10 +0000
> (19:27 +0200)
> committer
> Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>
>
> Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:10 +0000
> (19:27 +0200)
> commit
> 6fb14755a676282a4e6caa05a08c92db8e45cfff
>
>
> changed it to include text (even though Andi vetoed that before when I
> asked for it on grounds of breaking kprobes)... sounds this really wants
> to be a 2nd config option to seperatedly do code and data.

Something like having a seperate config option and a routine
to mark kernel text as read execute only.
And call mark_rwtext_ro() if CONFIG_DEBUG_ROTEXT is enabled
below in mark_rodata_ro().

/* this code is for i386 architecture*/
static inline void mark_rwtext_ro(void)
{
unsigned long start = PFN_ALIGN(_text);
unsigned long size = PFN_ALIGN(_etext) - start;

#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
/* It must still be possible to apply SMP alternatives. */
if (num_possible_cpus() <= 1)
#endif
{
change_page_attr(virt_to_page(start),
size >> PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_KERNEL_RX);
printk("Write protecting the kernel text: %luk\n", size >> 10);
}
/*
* global_flush_tlb() will be called after marking the data as readonly.
*/
}

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA

void mark_rodata_ro(void)
{
....

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ROTEXT
mark_rwtext_ro();
#endif
....

}

Thanks
Prasanna
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Prasanna S.P.
Linux Technology Center
India Software Labs, IBM Bangalore
Email: prasanna@in.ibm.com
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