Re: [PATCH V2] x86/ftrace: Make sure that ftrace trampolines are not RWX

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Thu May 25 2017 - 13:46:12 EST


On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:57:51AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> ftrace use module_alloc() to allocate trampoline pages. The mapping of
> module_alloc() is RWX, which makes sense as the memory is written to right
> after allocation. But nothing makes these pages RO after writing to them.
>
> Add proper set_memory_rw/ro() calls to protect the trampolines after
> modification.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
> @@ -689,8 +689,12 @@ static inline void *alloc_tramp(unsigned
> {
> return module_alloc(size);
> }
> -static inline void tramp_free(void *tramp)
> +static inline void tramp_free(void *tramp, int size)
> {
> + int npages = PAGE_ALIGN(size) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +
> + set_memory_nx((unsigned long)tramp, npages);
> + set_memory_rw((unsigned long)tramp, npages);
> module_memfree(tramp);
> }

Can/should module_memfree() just do this for users? With Masami's fix that'd
be 2 users already.

Luis