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authorRick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>2019-04-25 17:11:40 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-04-30 12:38:01 +0200
commit241a1f22380646bc4d1dd18e5bc246877513da68 (patch)
treed9aa37d237eefff927100d8a247703fd2c017a7c /arch/x86/kernel
parent7fdfe1e40b225b1d163f9afed2fa3f04442dbaad (diff)
x86/kprobes: Use vmalloc special flag
Use new flag VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS for handling freeing of special permissioned memory in vmalloc and remove places where memory was set NX and RW before freeing which is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: <deneen.t.dock@intel.com> Cc: <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com> Cc: <kristen@linux.intel.com> Cc: <linux_dti@icloud.com> Cc: <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190426001143.4983-21-namit@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c7
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
index 06058c44ab57..800593f4ddf7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
@@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ void *alloc_insn_page(void)
if (!page)
return NULL;
+ set_vm_flush_reset_perms(page);
/*
* First make the page read-only, and only then make it executable to
* prevent it from being W+X in between.
@@ -452,12 +453,6 @@ void *alloc_insn_page(void)
/* Recover page to RW mode before releasing it */
void free_insn_page(void *page)
{
- /*
- * First make the page non-executable, and only then make it writable to
- * prevent it from being W+X in between.
- */
- set_memory_nx((unsigned long)page, 1);
- set_memory_rw((unsigned long)page, 1);
module_memfree(page);
}