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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2018-02-20 12:37:52 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-02-21 10:54:06 -0500
commitdc1dd184c2f0016bec35c0d7a48c057e0ad763d3 (patch)
tree43323dde05f7db864de96e8dfbaafc1397142268
parent33352244706369ea6736781ae41fe41692eb69bb (diff)
jump_label: Warn on failed jump_label patching attempt
Currently when the jump label code encounters an address which isn't recognized by kernel_text_address(), it just silently fails. This can be dangerous because jump labels are used in a variety of places, and are generally expected to work. Convert the silent failure to a warning. This won't warn about attempted writes to tracepoints in __init code after initmem has been freed, as those are already guarded by the entry->code check. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/de3a271c93807adb7ed48f4e946b4f9156617680.1519051220.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/jump_label.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/jump_label.c b/kernel/jump_label.c
index b71776576a66..b2f0b479191b 100644
--- a/kernel/jump_label.c
+++ b/kernel/jump_label.c
@@ -367,12 +367,15 @@ static void __jump_label_update(struct static_key *key,
367{ 367{
368 for (; (entry < stop) && (jump_entry_key(entry) == key); entry++) { 368 for (; (entry < stop) && (jump_entry_key(entry) == key); entry++) {
369 /* 369 /*
370 * entry->code set to 0 invalidates module init text sections 370 * An entry->code of 0 indicates an entry which has been
371 * kernel_text_address() verifies we are not in core kernel 371 * disabled because it was in an init text area.
372 * init code, see jump_label_invalidate_module_init().
373 */ 372 */
374 if (entry->code && kernel_text_address(entry->code)) 373 if (entry->code) {
375 arch_jump_label_transform(entry, jump_label_type(entry)); 374 if (kernel_text_address(entry->code))
375 arch_jump_label_transform(entry, jump_label_type(entry));
376 else
377 WARN_ONCE(1, "can't patch jump_label at %pS", (void *)entry->code);
378 }
376 } 379 }
377} 380}
378 381