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authorMike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>2025-07-13 10:17:29 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-08-02 12:06:12 -0700
commit36de1e4238c1243866eaec515ef59972c490367f (patch)
treeffa9e2dd5cefb968fc2a6b04a0dd057724040763
parentab674b6871b049aab2e86d1d7375526368ed175a (diff)
x86/kprobes: enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for kprobes allocations
x86::alloc_insn_page() always allocates ROX memory. Instead of overriding this method, add EXECMEM_KPROBES entry in execmem_info with pgprot set to PAGE_KERNEL_ROX and use ROX cache when configuration and CPU features allow it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250713071730.4117334-8-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com> Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c18
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/init.c9
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
index 47cb8eb138ba..6079d15dab8c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
@@ -481,24 +481,6 @@ static int prepare_singlestep(kprobe_opcode_t *buf, struct kprobe *p,
return len;
}
-/* Make page to RO mode when allocate it */
-void *alloc_insn_page(void)
-{
- void *page;
-
- page = execmem_alloc(EXECMEM_KPROBES, PAGE_SIZE);
- if (!page)
- return NULL;
-
- /*
- * TODO: Once additional kernel code protection mechanisms are set, ensure
- * that the page was not maliciously altered and it is still zeroed.
- */
- set_memory_rox((unsigned long)page, 1);
-
- return page;
-}
-
/* Kprobe x86 instruction emulation - only regs->ip or IF flag modifiers */
static void kprobe_emulate_ifmodifiers(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index dbc63f0d538f..442fafd8ff52 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -1098,7 +1098,14 @@ struct execmem_info __init *execmem_arch_setup(void)
.pgprot = pgprot,
.alignment = MODULE_ALIGN,
},
- [EXECMEM_KPROBES ... EXECMEM_BPF] = {
+ [EXECMEM_KPROBES] = {
+ .flags = flags,
+ .start = start,
+ .end = MODULES_END,
+ .pgprot = PAGE_KERNEL_ROX,
+ .alignment = MODULE_ALIGN,
+ },
+ [EXECMEM_FTRACE ... EXECMEM_BPF] = {
.flags = EXECMEM_KASAN_SHADOW,
.start = start,
.end = MODULES_END,