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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] Fix LKDTM for PPC64/IA64/PARISC v4
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To:     Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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From:   Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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On 2/15/22 17:07, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 01:40:55PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> PPC64/IA64/PARISC have function descriptors. LKDTM doesn't work
>> on those three architectures because LKDTM messes up function
>> descriptors with functions.
>>
>> This series does some cleanup in the three architectures and
>> refactors function descriptors so that it can then easily use it
>> in a generic way in LKDTM.
>
> Thanks for doing this! It looks good to me. :)

I endorse that.
Thank you, Christophe!

Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

Helge

> -Kees
>
>>
>> Changes in v4:
>> - Added patch 1 which Fixes 'sparse' for powerpc64le after wrong report=
 on previous series, refer https://github.com/ruscur/linux-ci/actions/runs=
/1351427671
>> - Exported dereference_function_descriptor() to modules
>> - Addressed other received comments
>> - Rebased on latest powerpc/next (5a72345e6a78120368fcc841b570331b6c5a5=
0da)
>>
>> Changes in v3:
>> - Addressed received comments
>> - Swapped some of the powerpc patches to keep func_descr_t renamed as s=
truct func_desc and remove 'struct ppc64_opd_entry'
>> - Changed HAVE_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS macro to a config item CONFIG_HAVE_=
FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS
>> - Dropped patch 11 ("Fix lkdtm_EXEC_RODATA()")
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Addressed received comments
>> - Moved dereference_[kernel]_function_descriptor() out of line
>> - Added patches to remove func_descr_t and func_desc_t in powerpc
>> - Using func_desc_t instead of funct_descr_t
>> - Renamed HAVE_DEREFERENCE_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTOR to HAVE_FUNCTION_DESCRIP=
TORS
>> - Added a new lkdtm test to check protection of function descriptors
>>
>> Christophe Leroy (13):
>>   powerpc: Fix 'sparse' checking on PPC64le
>>   powerpc: Move and rename func_descr_t
>>   powerpc: Use 'struct func_desc' instead of 'struct ppc64_opd_entry'
>>   powerpc: Remove 'struct ppc64_opd_entry'
>>   powerpc: Prepare func_desc_t for refactorisation
>>   ia64: Rename 'ip' to 'addr' in 'struct fdesc'
>>   asm-generic: Define CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS
>>   asm-generic: Define 'func_desc_t' to commonly describe function
>>     descriptors
>>   asm-generic: Refactor dereference_[kernel]_function_descriptor()
>>   lkdtm: Force do_nothing() out of line
>>   lkdtm: Really write into kernel text in WRITE_KERN
>>   lkdtm: Fix execute_[user]_location()
>>   lkdtm: Add a test for function descriptors protection
>>
>>  arch/Kconfig                             |  3 +
>>  arch/ia64/Kconfig                        |  1 +
>>  arch/ia64/include/asm/elf.h              |  2 +-
>>  arch/ia64/include/asm/sections.h         | 24 +-------
>>  arch/ia64/kernel/module.c                |  6 +-
>>  arch/parisc/Kconfig                      |  1 +
>>  arch/parisc/include/asm/sections.h       | 16 ++----
>>  arch/parisc/kernel/process.c             | 21 -------
>>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig                     |  1 +
>>  arch/powerpc/Makefile                    |  2 +-
>>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h |  2 +-
>>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h           |  6 ++
>>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/sections.h      | 29 ++--------
>>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h         |  6 --
>>  arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/elf.h      |  8 ---
>>  arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c          | 42 ++++++--------
>>  arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c      |  6 ++
>>  arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c          |  8 +--
>>  drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c                |  1 +
>>  drivers/misc/lkdtm/lkdtm.h               |  1 +
>>  drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c               | 71 +++++++++++++++++++-----
>>  include/asm-generic/sections.h           | 15 ++++-
>>  include/linux/kallsyms.h                 |  2 +-
>>  kernel/extable.c                         | 24 +++++++-
>>  tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/tests.txt  |  1 +
>>  25 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>
>