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powerpc/lib/code-patching: Set up Strict RWX patching earlier
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setup_text_poke_area() is a late init call so it runs before
mark_rodata_ro() and after the init calls. This lets all the init code
patching simply write to their locations. In the future, kprobes is
going to allocate its instruction pages RO which means they will need
setup_text__poke_area() to have been already called for their code
patching. However, init_kprobes() (which allocates and patches some
instruction pages) is an early init call so it happens before
setup_text__poke_area().

start_kernel() calls poking_init() before any of the init calls. On
powerpc, poking_init() is currently a nop. setup_text_poke_area() relies
on kernel virtual memory, cpu hotplug and per_cpu_areas being setup.
setup_per_cpu_areas(), boot_cpu_hotplug_init() and mm_init() are called
before poking_init().

Turn setup_text_poke_area() into poking_init().

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Reviewed-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
[mpe: Fold in missing prototype for poking_init() from lkp]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210609013431.9805-3-jniethe5@gmail.com
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Jordan Niethe authored and Michael Ellerman committed Jun 21, 2021
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
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Expand Up @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ extern unsigned long empty_zero_page[];
extern pgd_t swapper_pg_dir[];

extern void paging_init(void);
void poking_init(void);

extern unsigned long ioremap_bot;

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14 changes: 4 additions & 10 deletions arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
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Expand Up @@ -69,22 +69,16 @@ static int text_area_cpu_down(unsigned int cpu)
}

/*
* Run as a late init call. This allows all the boot time patching to be done
* simply by patching the code, and then we're called here prior to
* mark_rodata_ro(), which happens after all init calls are run. Although
* BUG_ON() is rude, in this case it should only happen if ENOMEM, and we judge
* it as being preferable to a kernel that will crash later when someone tries
* to use patch_instruction().
* Although BUG_ON() is rude, in this case it should only happen if ENOMEM, and
* we judge it as being preferable to a kernel that will crash later when
* someone tries to use patch_instruction().
*/
static int __init setup_text_poke_area(void)
void __init poking_init(void)
{
BUG_ON(!cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN,
"powerpc/text_poke:online", text_area_cpu_up,
text_area_cpu_down));

return 0;
}
late_initcall(setup_text_poke_area);

/*
* This can be called for kernel text or a module.
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