[PATCH] x86 Fix text_poke for vmalloced pages

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

The shadow vmap for DEBUG_RODATA kernel text modification uses virt_to_page to
get the pages from the pointer address.

However, I think vmalloc_to_page would be required in case the page is used for
modules.

Since only the core kernel text is marked read-only, use core_kernel_text()
to make sure we only shadow map the core kernel text, not modules.

This is an incremental change to make the DEBUG_RODATA and text_poke play
together nicely. A future step will be to make the module text read-only too,
which will require changes to load module, module free and text_poke.
The idea is to fix the current x86 git tree quickly.

- Changelog:
kernel_text_address() -> core_kernel_text().

It applies on top of the x86 git tree, 2.6.25-rc6.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c	2008-03-19 18:57:29.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c	2008-03-19 20:01:10.000000000 -0400
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ void *__kprobes text_poke(void *addr, co
 	BUG_ON(len > sizeof(long));
 	BUG_ON((((long)addr + len - 1) & ~(sizeof(long) - 1))
 		- ((long)addr & ~(sizeof(long) - 1)));
-	{
+	if (core_kernel_text((unsigned long)addr)) {
 		struct page *pages[2] = { virt_to_page(addr),
 			virt_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE) };
 		if (!pages[1])
@@ -522,6 +522,13 @@ void *__kprobes text_poke(void *addr, co
 		memcpy(&vaddr[(unsigned long)addr & ~PAGE_MASK], opcode, len);
 		local_irq_restore(flags);
 		vunmap(vaddr);
+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * modules are in vmalloc'ed memory, always writable.
+		 */
+		local_irq_save(flags);
+		memcpy(addr, opcode, len);
+		local_irq_restore(flags);
 	}
 	sync_core();
 	/* Could also do a CLFLUSH here to speed up CPU recovery; but
-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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