linux/arch/x86/mm/pat
Steven Rostedt (Google) a970174d7a x86/mm: Do not verify W^X at boot up
Adding on the kernel command line "ftrace=function" triggered:

  CPA detected W^X violation: 8000000000000063 -> 0000000000000063 range: 0xffffffffc0013000 - 0xffffffffc0013fff PFN 10031b
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:609
  verify_rwx+0x61/0x6d
  Call Trace:
     __change_page_attr_set_clr+0x146/0x8a6
     change_page_attr_set_clr+0x135/0x268
     change_page_attr_clear.constprop.0+0x16/0x1c
     set_memory_x+0x2c/0x32
     arch_ftrace_update_trampoline+0x218/0x2db
     ftrace_update_trampoline+0x16/0xa1
     __register_ftrace_function+0x93/0xb2
     ftrace_startup+0x21/0xf0
     register_ftrace_function_nolock+0x26/0x40
     register_ftrace_function+0x4e/0x143
     function_trace_init+0x7d/0xc3
     tracer_init+0x23/0x2c
     tracing_set_tracer+0x1d5/0x206
     register_tracer+0x1c0/0x1e4
     init_function_trace+0x90/0x96
     early_trace_init+0x25c/0x352
     start_kernel+0x424/0x6e4
     x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x2a
     x86_64_start_kernel+0x8c/0x95
     secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xe0/0xeb

This is because at boot up, kernel text is writable, and there's no
reason to do tricks to updated it.  But the verifier does not
distinguish updates at boot up and at run time, and causes a warning at
time of boot.

Add a check for system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING and allow it if that is
the case.

[ These SYSTEM_BOOTING special cases are all pretty horrid, but the x86
  text_poke() code does some odd things at bootup, forcing this for now
    - Linus ]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221024112730.180916b3@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 652c5bf380 ("x86/mm: Refuse W^X violations")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-24 18:05:27 -07:00
..
cpa-test.c treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1 2022-10-11 17:42:55 -06:00
Makefile
memtype_interval.c mm: reorder includes after introduction of linux/pgtable.h 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
memtype.c x86/PAT: Have pat_enabled() properly reflect state when running on Xen 2022-08-15 10:51:23 +02:00
memtype.h
set_memory.c x86/mm: Do not verify W^X at boot up 2022-10-24 18:05:27 -07:00