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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] arm: use fixmap for text patching when text is RO
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:57:51PM +0100, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> How does fixmap cope with cache colouring? Looking at the implementation
> it looks like it doesn't and so fixmap use on ARM is possibly buggy.
>
> For the text patching case where we know there are no writeable mappings
> [1] this should be OK if we used set_fixmap_nocache here, so long as we
> also invalidated the dcache later for the proper virtual address.

OK. The dcache invalidation for the proper virtual address is btw
already there via the call to flush_icache_range().

> [1] Can we know there are no writeable mappings though, the ftrace code
> modifying patches from Kees Cook have there own way of modifying text
> code permissions.

The ftrace patches does the modifications and the cache cleaning in
stop_machine(), so there should not be any dirty cache lines from those
writable mappings when we set up and write to these fixmaps. Do you
still see a problem?


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