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authorJan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-05-19 16:55:26 -0600
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2011-05-19 16:55:26 +0930
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module: undo module RONX protection correctly.
While debugging I stumbled over two problems in the code that protects module pages. First issue is that disabling the protection before freeing init or unload of a module is not symmetric with the enablement. For instance, if pages are set to RO the page range from module_core to module_core + core_ro_size is protected. If a module is unloaded the page range from module_core to module_core + core_size is set back to RW. So pages that were not set to RO are also changed to RW. This is not critical but IMHO it should be symmetric. Second issue is that while set_memory_rw & set_memory_ro are used for RO/RW changes only set_memory_nx is involved for NX/X. One would await that the inverse function is called when the NX protection should be removed, which is not the case here, unless I'm missing something. Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c25
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 92112c91b7e9..b99dcebc980d 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1607,22 +1607,23 @@ static void set_section_ro_nx(void *base,
}
}
-/* Setting memory back to RW+NX before releasing it */
+/* Setting memory back to W+X before releasing it */
void unset_section_ro_nx(struct module *mod, void *module_region)
{
- unsigned long total_pages;
-
if (mod->module_core == module_region) {
- /* Set core as NX+RW */
- total_pages = MOD_NUMBER_OF_PAGES(mod->module_core, mod->core_size);
- set_memory_nx((unsigned long)mod->module_core, total_pages);
- set_memory_rw((unsigned long)mod->module_core, total_pages);
-
+ set_page_attributes(mod->module_core + mod->core_text_size,
+ mod->module_core + mod->core_size,
+ set_memory_x);
+ set_page_attributes(mod->module_core,
+ mod->module_core + mod->core_ro_size,
+ set_memory_rw);
} else if (mod->module_init == module_region) {
- /* Set init as NX+RW */
- total_pages = MOD_NUMBER_OF_PAGES(mod->module_init, mod->init_size);
- set_memory_nx((unsigned long)mod->module_init, total_pages);
- set_memory_rw((unsigned long)mod->module_init, total_pages);
+ set_page_attributes(mod->module_init + mod->init_text_size,
+ mod->module_init + mod->init_size,
+ set_memory_x);
+ set_page_attributes(mod->module_init,
+ mod->module_init + mod->init_ro_size,
+ set_memory_rw);
}
}