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[v4,20/23] x86/kprobes: Use vmalloc special flag

Message ID 20190422185805.1169-21-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Merge text_poke fixes and executable lockdowns | expand

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Edgecombe, Rick P April 22, 2019, 6:58 p.m. UTC 
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.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
index 1591852d3ac4..136695e4434a 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);
 }