From 241a1f22380646bc4d1dd18e5bc246877513da68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rick Edgecombe Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:11:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86/kprobes: Use vmalloc special flag Use new flag VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS for handling freeing of special permissioned memory in vmalloc and remove places where memory was set NX and RW before freeing which is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Nadav Amit Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190426001143.4983-21-namit@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c index 06058c44ab57..800593f4ddf7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c @@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ void *alloc_insn_page(void) if (!page) return NULL; + set_vm_flush_reset_perms(page); /* * First make the page read-only, and only then make it executable to * prevent it from being W+X in between. @@ -452,12 +453,6 @@ void *alloc_insn_page(void) /* Recover page to RW mode before releasing it */ void free_insn_page(void *page) { - /* - * First make the page non-executable, and only then make it writable to - * prevent it from being W+X in between. - */ - set_memory_nx((unsigned long)page, 1); - set_memory_rw((unsigned long)page, 1); module_memfree(page); } -- 2.45.2