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ftrace: dont write protect kernel text 

Dynamic ftrace cant work when the kernel has its text write protected.
This patch keeps the kernel from being write protected when
dynamic ftrace is in place.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Steven Rostedt 2008-05-12 21:20:56 +02:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent a56be3fe2f
commit 8f0f996e80
2 changed files with 12 additions and 2 deletions
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arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
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@ -710,6 +710,8 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
unsigned long start = PFN_ALIGN(_text);
unsigned long size = PFN_ALIGN(_etext) - start;
#ifndef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
/* Dynamic tracing modifies the kernel text section */
set_pages_ro(virt_to_page(start), size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
printk(KERN_INFO "Write protecting the kernel text: %luk\n",
size >> 10);
@ -722,6 +724,8 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
printk(KERN_INFO "Testing CPA: write protecting again\n");
set_pages_ro(virt_to_page(start), size>>PAGE_SHIFT);
#endif
#endif /* CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE */
start += size;
size = (unsigned long)__end_rodata - start;
set_pages_ro(virt_to_page(start), size >> PAGE_SHIFT);

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arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
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@ -766,6 +766,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rodata_test_data);
void mark_rodata_ro(void)
{
unsigned long start = PFN_ALIGN(_stext), end = PFN_ALIGN(__end_rodata);
unsigned long rodata_start =
((unsigned long)__start_rodata + PAGE_SIZE - 1) & PAGE_MASK;
#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
/* Dynamic tracing modifies the kernel text section */
start = rodata_start;
#endif
printk(KERN_INFO "Write protecting the kernel read-only data: %luk\n",
(end - start) >> 10);
@ -775,8 +782,7 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
* The rodata section (but not the kernel text!) should also be
* not-executable.
*/
start = ((unsigned long)__start_rodata + PAGE_SIZE - 1) & PAGE_MASK;
set_memory_nx(start, (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
set_memory_nx(rodata_start, (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
rodata_test();