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authorMike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>2025-07-13 10:17:28 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-08-02 12:06:12 -0700
commitab674b6871b049aab2e86d1d7375526368ed175a (patch)
tree56438fc70ff9ddba398e9c5169c683a2c6d0fe01
parent3bd4e0ac61b2fd87d64572e866f58940d1d5fbdf (diff)
execmem: drop writable parameter from execmem_fill_trapping_insns()
After update of execmem_cache_free() that made memory writable before updating it, there is no need to update read only memory, so the writable parameter to execmem_fill_trapping_insns() is not needed. Drop it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250713071730.4117334-7-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> 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/mm/init.c8
-rw-r--r--include/linux/execmem.h3
-rw-r--r--mm/execmem.c4
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index 7456df985d96..dbc63f0d538f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -1063,13 +1063,9 @@ unsigned long arch_max_swapfile_size(void)
static struct execmem_info execmem_info __ro_after_init;
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_EXECMEM_ROX
-void execmem_fill_trapping_insns(void *ptr, size_t size, bool writeable)
+void execmem_fill_trapping_insns(void *ptr, size_t size)
{
- /* fill memory with INT3 instructions */
- if (writeable)
- memset(ptr, INT3_INSN_OPCODE, size);
- else
- text_poke_set(ptr, INT3_INSN_OPCODE, size);
+ memset(ptr, INT3_INSN_OPCODE, size);
}
#endif
diff --git a/include/linux/execmem.h b/include/linux/execmem.h
index 8b61b05da7d5..7de229134e30 100644
--- a/include/linux/execmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/execmem.h
@@ -60,12 +60,11 @@ enum execmem_range_flags {
* will trap
* @ptr: pointer to memory to fill
* @size: size of the range to fill
- * @writable: is the memory poited by @ptr is writable or ROX
*
* A hook for architecures to fill execmem ranges with invalid instructions.
* Architectures that use EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE must implement this.
*/
-void execmem_fill_trapping_insns(void *ptr, size_t size, bool writable);
+void execmem_fill_trapping_insns(void *ptr, size_t size);
/**
* execmem_restore_rox - restore read-only-execute permissions
diff --git a/mm/execmem.c b/mm/execmem.c
index 9abf76a63a79..1785d7f435e4 100644
--- a/mm/execmem.c
+++ b/mm/execmem.c
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ static int execmem_cache_populate(struct execmem_range *range, size_t size)
goto err_free_mem;
/* fill memory with instructions that will trap */
- execmem_fill_trapping_insns(p, alloc_size, /* writable = */ true);
+ execmem_fill_trapping_insns(p, alloc_size);
err = set_memory_rox((unsigned long)p, vm->nr_pages);
if (err)
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static int __execmem_cache_free(struct ma_state *mas, void *ptr, gfp_t gfp_mask)
if (err)
return err;
- execmem_fill_trapping_insns(ptr, size, /* writable = */ true);
+ execmem_fill_trapping_insns(ptr, size);
execmem_restore_rox(ptr, size);
err = execmem_cache_add_locked(ptr, size, gfp_mask);