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Date:   Tue, 1 Aug 2023 09:27:31 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To:     Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/proc/kcore: reinstate bounce buffer for KCORE_TEXT
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On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 10:50:21PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> Some architectures do not populate the entire range categorised by
> KCORE_TEXT, so we must ensure that the kernel address we read from is
> valid.
> 
> Unfortunately there is no solution currently available to do so with a
> purely iterator solution so reinstate the bounce buffer in this instance so
> we can use copy_from_kernel_nofault() in order to avoid page faults when
> regions are unmapped.
> 
> This change partly reverts commit 2e1c0170771e ("fs/proc/kcore: avoid
> bounce buffer for ktext data"), reinstating the bounce buffer, but adapts
> the code to continue to use an iterator.
> 
> Fixes: 2e1c0170771e ("fs/proc/kcore: avoid bounce buffer for ktext data")
> Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZHc2fm+9daF6cgCE@krava
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
> ---
>  fs/proc/kcore.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Tested-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

I can confirm this fixes the arm64 issue reported by Mike over at [1].

Cheers,

Will

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/b39c62d29a431b023e98959578ba87e96af0e030.camel@gmx.de