Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/pti: Call pti_init() after mark_readonly()

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Jul 10 2018 - 16:26:01 EST


On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Joerg Roedel wrote:

> Hey Thomas,
>
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 01:52:23PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > Joerg Roedel (3):
> > x86/pti: Move pti_init() code out of __init
> > x86/mm/pti: Call pti_init() after mark_readonly()
> > x86/pti: Call pti_clone_kernel_text() from pti_init()
>
> Please ignore this patch-set. It turned out that some code in the kernel
> executes user-space even before /init is started. I just ran into a
> problem where request_module calls usermode-helper and then
> triple-faults when it tries to go to user-space and finds the
> user-pagetable still empty.
>
> I need to look into another solution for this then.

Thanks for the clue. I was about to stare at it.

Thanks,

tglx