[PATCH v2 1/2] kprobes: Allow architectures to override optinsn page allocation

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Thu May 13 2021 - 05:08:11 EST


Some architectures like powerpc require a non standard
allocation of optinsn page, because module pages are
too far from the kernel for direct branches.

Define weak alloc_optinsn_page() and free_optinsn_page(), that
fall back on alloc_insn_page() and free_insn_page() when not
overriden by the architecture.

Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: Added missing prototypes in linux/kprobes.h
---
include/linux/kprobes.h | 3 +++
kernel/kprobes.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h
index 1883a4a9f16a..02d4020615a7 100644
--- a/include/linux/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h
@@ -409,6 +409,9 @@ void dump_kprobe(struct kprobe *kp);
void *alloc_insn_page(void);
void free_insn_page(void *page);

+void *alloc_optinsn_page(void);
+void free_optinsn_page(void *page);
+
int kprobe_get_kallsym(unsigned int symnum, unsigned long *value, char *type,
char *sym);

diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index 745f08fdd7a6..8c0a6fdef771 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -321,11 +321,21 @@ int kprobe_cache_get_kallsym(struct kprobe_insn_cache *c, unsigned int *symnum,
}

#ifdef CONFIG_OPTPROBES
+void __weak *alloc_optinsn_page(void)
+{
+ return alloc_insn_page();
+}
+
+void __weak free_optinsn_page(void *page)
+{
+ free_insn_page(page);
+}
+
/* For optimized_kprobe buffer */
struct kprobe_insn_cache kprobe_optinsn_slots = {
.mutex = __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(kprobe_optinsn_slots.mutex),
- .alloc = alloc_insn_page,
- .free = free_insn_page,
+ .alloc = alloc_optinsn_page,
+ .free = free_optinsn_page,
.sym = KPROBE_OPTINSN_PAGE_SYM,
.pages = LIST_HEAD_INIT(kprobe_optinsn_slots.pages),
/* .insn_size is initialized later */
--
2.25.0