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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke

    > > > The 0xf0 pattern comes from alternatives_smp_lock: text_poke(*ptr,
    > > > ((unsigned char []){0xf0}), 1);
    > >
    > > And we should really add a lot more sanity checking there.

    something like the patch below? (untested)

    Ingo

    --------------->
    Subject: harden kernel code patching
    From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Date: Fri Apr 25 17:07:03 CEST 2008

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    ---
    arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 5 +++++
    mm/vmalloc.c | 3 +++
    2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

    Index: linux/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
    ===================================================================
    --- linux.orig/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
    +++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
    @@ -518,6 +518,11 @@ void *__kprobes text_poke(void *addr, co
    if (core_kernel_text((unsigned long)addr)) {
    struct page *pages[2] = { virt_to_page(addr),
    virt_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE) };
    + /*
    + * Module text pages are PageReserved:
    + */
    + WARN_ON(pages[0] && !PageReserved(pages[0]))
    + WARN_ON(pages[1] && !PageReserved(pages[1]))
    if (!pages[1])
    nr_pages = 1;
    vaddr = vmap(pages, nr_pages, VM_MAP, PAGE_KERNEL);
    Index: linux/mm/vmalloc.c
    ===================================================================
    --- linux.orig/mm/vmalloc.c
    +++ linux/mm/vmalloc.c
    @@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ static void __vunmap(const void *addr, i
    struct page *page = area->pages[i];

    BUG_ON(!page);
    + ClearPageReserved(page);
    __free_page(page);
    }

    @@ -507,6 +508,8 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct
    area->nr_pages = i;
    goto fail;
    }
    + if (prot == PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC)
    + SetPageReserved(page);
    area->pages[i] = page;
    }


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