[PATCH v2 3/5] x86/alternative: exclude text poking against change_page_attr()
From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Thu Aug 13 2026 - 05:04:36 EST
From: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@xxxxxxx>
>From time to time, the following BUG can be observed[0]:
> kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2576!
> Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 355 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 7.1.3-1-default #1 PREEMPT(full) openSUSE Tumbleweed 8c1795b03ec64f997e57a8ad38b1161e3b98da64
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
> RIP: 0010:__text_poke+0x2aa/0x450
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> smp_text_poke_batch_finish+0x2a7/0x320
> __static_call_transform+0xb7/0x220
> arch_static_call_transform+0x5b/0xb0
> __static_call_init+0xe9/0x270
> static_call_module_notify+0x11f/0x150
> notifier_call_chain+0x61/0xe0
> blocking_notifier_call_chain_robust+0x63/0xc0
> load_module+0x1c92/0x20c0
> init_module_from_file+0xd8/0x140
> idempotent_init_module+0x100/0x2f0
> __x64_sys_finit_module+0x71/0xe0
> do_syscall_64+0xe1/0x610
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
which matches the following BUG_ON in alternative.c:
/*
* If something went wrong, crash and burn since recovery paths are not
* implemented.
*/
BUG_ON(!pages[0] || (cross_page_boundary && !pages[1]));
This can happen if vmalloc_to_page() fails, for any reason. Such can happen
if text poking races with CPA, which can possibly result in the collapsing
of page tables (or breaking of PMD hugepages). It is not a problem for most
users of vmalloc_to_page() (they solely own the vmalloc'd range) but, when
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_EXECMEM_ROX=y, various modules own a single execmem vmalloc
range, and can call set_memory_*() in parallel on it. This can happen to
race against __text_poke and cause havoc in vmalloc_to_page().
Fix it by excluding against CPA using the init_mm mmap read lock.
Fixes: 64f6a4e10c05 ("x86: re-enable EXECMEM_ROX support")
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1271202 [0]
Reported-by: Steffen Dirkwinkel <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/555ea1d43a12c30a8f1eaf10c899b3790d728f33.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Co-developed-by: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 62936a3bde19..f81d6bc90a6f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/memory.h>
#include <linux/execmem.h>
+#include <linux/cleanup.h>
+#include <linux/kgdb.h>
+#include <linux/mmap_lock.h>
#include <asm/text-patching.h>
#include <asm/insn.h>
@@ -2543,6 +2546,38 @@ static void text_poke_memset(void *dst, const void *src, size_t len)
typedef void text_poke_f(void *dst, const void *src, size_t len);
+static void __poke_vmalloc_pages(struct page **pages, void *addr,
+ bool cross_page_boundary)
+{
+ pages[0] = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
+ if (cross_page_boundary)
+ pages[1] = vmalloc_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
+}
+
+static void poke_vmalloc_pages(struct page **pages, void *addr,
+ bool cross_page_boundary)
+{
+ if (in_dbg_master()) {
+ /*
+ * If called from kgdb cannot sleep, but all other CPUs stopped
+ * anyway so safe to proceed without locks
+ */
+ __poke_vmalloc_pages(pages, addr, cross_page_boundary);
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * execmem ROX ranges are shared between modules and can be
+ * collapsed to huge PMD entries, and this collapse can happen
+ * concurrently with a racing set_memory_rox().
+ *
+ * Prevent vmalloc_to_page() from racing by acquiring an
+ * init_mm read lock which pairs with the init_mm write lock in
+ * cpa_collapse_large_pages().
+ */
+ guard(mmap_read_lock)(&init_mm);
+ __poke_vmalloc_pages(pages, addr, cross_page_boundary);
+ }
+}
+
static void *__text_poke(text_poke_f func, void *addr, const void *src, size_t len)
{
bool cross_page_boundary = offset_in_page(addr) + len > PAGE_SIZE;
@@ -2560,9 +2595,7 @@ static void *__text_poke(text_poke_f func, void *addr, const void *src, size_t l
BUG_ON(!after_bootmem);
if (!core_kernel_text((unsigned long)addr)) {
- pages[0] = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
- if (cross_page_boundary)
- pages[1] = vmalloc_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
+ poke_vmalloc_pages(pages, addr, cross_page_boundary);
} else {
pages[0] = virt_to_page(addr);
WARN_ON(!PageReserved(pages[0]));
--
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