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From:   Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 1 Jun 2023 17:02:16 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] x86/jitalloc: prepare to allocate exectuatble
 memory as ROX
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
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On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 4:07=E2=80=AFAM Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> wrot=
e:
>
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:30:50PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 01:12:56PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> >
> > > +static void __init_or_module do_text_poke(void *addr, const void *op=
code, size_t len)
> > > +{
> > > +   if (system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING) {
> > > +           text_poke_early(addr, opcode, len);
> > > +   } else {
> > > +           mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
> > > +           text_poke(addr, opcode, len);
> > > +           mutex_unlock(&text_mutex);
> > > +   }
> > > +}
> >
> > So I don't much like do_text_poke(); why?
>
> I believe the idea was to keep memcpy for early boot before the kernel
> image is protected without going and adding if (is_module_text_address())
> all over the place.
>
> I think this can be used instead without updating all the call sites of
> text_poke_early():
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.=
c
> index 91057de8e6bc..f994e63e9903 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
> @@ -1458,7 +1458,7 @@ void __init_or_module text_poke_early(void *addr, c=
onst void *opcode,
>                  * code cannot be running and speculative code-fetches ar=
e
>                  * prevented. Just change the code.
>                  */
> -               memcpy(addr, opcode, len);
> +               text_poke_copy(addr, opcode, len);
>         } else {
>                 local_irq_save(flags);
>                 memcpy(addr, opcode, len);
>

This alone doesn't work, as text_poke_early() is called
before addr is added to the list of module texts. So we
still use memcpy() here.

Thanks,
Song