[tip: x86/urgent] Revert "mm/execmem: Unify early execmem_cache behaviour"

From: tip-bot2 for Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2025 - 05:31:27 EST


The following commit has been merged into the x86/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 7cd9a11dd0c3d1dd225795ed1b5b53132888e7b5
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/7cd9a11dd0c3d1dd225795ed1b5b53132888e7b5
Author: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:14:45 +03:00
Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:20:52 +02:00

Revert "mm/execmem: Unify early execmem_cache behaviour"

The commit d6d1e3e6580c ("mm/execmem: Unify early execmem_cache
behaviour") changed early behaviour of execemem ROX cache to allow its
usage in early x86 code that allocates text pages when
CONFIG_MITGATION_ITS is enabled.

The permission management of the pages allocated from execmem for ITS
mitigation is now completely contained in arch/x86/kernel/alternatives.c
and therefore there is no need to special case early allocations in
execmem.

This reverts commit d6d1e3e6580ca35071ad474381f053cbf1fb6414.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250603111446.2609381-6-rppt@xxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 3 +---
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 3 +---
include/linux/execmem.h | 8 +-------
mm/execmem.c | 40 +++-------------------------------------
4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
index 607d6a2..8a34fff 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
#include <linux/initrd.h>
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
#include <linux/gfp.h>
-#include <linux/execmem.h>

#include <asm/asm.h>
#include <asm/bios_ebda.h>
@@ -749,8 +748,6 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
pr_info("Write protecting kernel text and read-only data: %luk\n",
size >> 10);

- execmem_cache_make_ro();
-
kernel_set_to_readonly = 1;

#ifdef CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index ee66fae..fdb6cab 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include <linux/kcore.h>
#include <linux/bootmem_info.h>
-#include <linux/execmem.h>

#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/bios_ebda.h>
@@ -1392,8 +1391,6 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
(end - start) >> 10);
set_memory_ro(start, (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);

- execmem_cache_make_ro();
-
kernel_set_to_readonly = 1;

/*
diff --git a/include/linux/execmem.h b/include/linux/execmem.h
index ca42d5e..3be3568 100644
--- a/include/linux/execmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/execmem.h
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ enum execmem_range_flags {
EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE = (1 << 1),
};

-#if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_EXECMEM_ROX) && defined(CONFIG_EXECMEM)
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_EXECMEM_ROX
/**
* execmem_fill_trapping_insns - set memory to contain instructions that
* will trap
@@ -94,15 +94,9 @@ int execmem_make_temp_rw(void *ptr, size_t size);
* Return: 0 on success or negative error code on failure.
*/
int execmem_restore_rox(void *ptr, size_t size);
-
-/*
- * Called from mark_readonly(), where the system transitions to ROX.
- */
-void execmem_cache_make_ro(void);
#else
static inline int execmem_make_temp_rw(void *ptr, size_t size) { return 0; }
static inline int execmem_restore_rox(void *ptr, size_t size) { return 0; }
-static inline void execmem_cache_make_ro(void) { }
#endif

/**
diff --git a/mm/execmem.c b/mm/execmem.c
index 9720ac2..2b683e7 100644
--- a/mm/execmem.c
+++ b/mm/execmem.c
@@ -254,34 +254,6 @@ out_unlock:
return ptr;
}

-static bool execmem_cache_rox = false;
-
-void execmem_cache_make_ro(void)
-{
- struct maple_tree *free_areas = &execmem_cache.free_areas;
- struct maple_tree *busy_areas = &execmem_cache.busy_areas;
- MA_STATE(mas_free, free_areas, 0, ULONG_MAX);
- MA_STATE(mas_busy, busy_areas, 0, ULONG_MAX);
- struct mutex *mutex = &execmem_cache.mutex;
- void *area;
-
- execmem_cache_rox = true;
-
- mutex_lock(mutex);
-
- mas_for_each(&mas_free, area, ULONG_MAX) {
- unsigned long pages = mas_range_len(&mas_free) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- set_memory_ro(mas_free.index, pages);
- }
-
- mas_for_each(&mas_busy, area, ULONG_MAX) {
- unsigned long pages = mas_range_len(&mas_busy) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- set_memory_ro(mas_busy.index, pages);
- }
-
- mutex_unlock(mutex);
-}
-
static int execmem_cache_populate(struct execmem_range *range, size_t size)
{
unsigned long vm_flags = VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP;
@@ -302,15 +274,9 @@ static int execmem_cache_populate(struct execmem_range *range, size_t size)
/* fill memory with instructions that will trap */
execmem_fill_trapping_insns(p, alloc_size, /* writable = */ true);

- if (execmem_cache_rox) {
- err = set_memory_rox((unsigned long)p, vm->nr_pages);
- if (err)
- goto err_free_mem;
- } else {
- err = set_memory_x((unsigned long)p, vm->nr_pages);
- if (err)
- goto err_free_mem;
- }
+ err = set_memory_rox((unsigned long)p, vm->nr_pages);
+ if (err)
+ goto err_free_mem;

err = execmem_cache_add(p, alloc_size);
if (err)