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Date:   Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:08:14 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:27:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:28:36AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > Better late than never, these patches add simplifications and
> > improvements for some issues Peter found six months ago, as part of his
> > non-writable text code (W^X) cleanups.
> 
> Excellent stuff, thanks!!
>
> I'll go brush up these two patches then:
> 
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191018074634.801435443@infradead.org
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191018074634.858645375@infradead.org

Ah right, I meant to bring that up.  I actually played around with those
patches.  While it would be nice to figure out a way to converge the
ftrace module init, I didn't really like the first patch.

It bothers me that both the notifiers and the module init() both see the
same MODULE_STATE_COMING state, but only in the former case is the text
writable.

I think it's cognitively simpler if MODULE_STATE_COMING always means the
same thing, like the comments imply, "fully formed" and thus
not-writable:

enum module_state {
	MODULE_STATE_LIVE,	/* Normal state. */
	MODULE_STATE_COMING,	/* Full formed, running module_init. */
	MODULE_STATE_GOING,	/* Going away. */
	MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED,	/* Still setting it up. */
};

And, it keeps tighter constraints on what a notifier can do, which is a
good thing if we can get away with it.

> and write a patch that makes the x86 code throw a wobbly on W+X.
> 
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

Thanks!

-- 
Josh