Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Remove unused code from STRICT_KERNEL_RWX

From: Atish Patra
Date: Tue May 05 2020 - 20:00:20 EST


On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 4:55 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 03 May 2020 21:03:19 PDT (-0700), Atish Patra wrote:
> > This patch removes the unused functions set_kernel_text_rw/ro.
> > Currently, it is not being invoked from anywhere and no other architecture
> > (except arm) uses this code. Even in ARM, these functions are not invoked
> > from anywhere currently.
> >
> > Fixes: d27c3c90817e ("riscv: add STRICT_KERNEL_RWX support")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 16 ----------------
> > 1 file changed, 16 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> > index b55be44ff9bd..ba60a581e9b6 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> > @@ -501,22 +501,6 @@ static inline void setup_vm_final(void)
> > #endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
> > -void set_kernel_text_rw(void)
> > -{
> > - unsigned long text_start = (unsigned long)_text;
> > - unsigned long text_end = (unsigned long)_etext;
> > -
> > - set_memory_rw(text_start, (text_end - text_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> > -}
> > -
> > -void set_kernel_text_ro(void)
> > -{
> > - unsigned long text_start = (unsigned long)_text;
> > - unsigned long text_end = (unsigned long)_etext;
> > -
> > - set_memory_ro(text_start, (text_end - text_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> > -}
> > -
> > void mark_rodata_ro(void)
> > {
> > unsigned long text_start = (unsigned long)_text;
>
> Thanks, this is on fixes. Are you going to remove the ARM code as well?
>

Yeah and also I realized that I forgot to remove the declarations from
the header file.
My bad. I will send out a v2. Please drop this one and take v2.

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Regards,
Atish