[patch 05/17] 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 and vmalloc_to_page for vmalloc'ed
pages.

- Changelog:
Deal with read-only module text.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c |   27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c	2008-03-24 10:00:30.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c	2008-03-24 10:18:19.000000000 -0400
@@ -507,22 +507,27 @@ void *__kprobes text_poke(void *addr, co
 	unsigned long flags;
 	char *vaddr;
 	int nr_pages = 2;
+	struct page *pages[2];
 
 	BUG_ON(len > sizeof(long));
 	BUG_ON((((long)addr + len - 1) & ~(sizeof(long) - 1))
 		- ((long)addr & ~(sizeof(long) - 1)));
-	{
-		struct page *pages[2] = { virt_to_page(addr),
-			virt_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE) };
-		if (!pages[1])
-			nr_pages = 1;
-		vaddr = vmap(pages, nr_pages, VM_MAP, PAGE_KERNEL);
-		WARN_ON(!vaddr);
-		local_irq_save(flags);
-		memcpy(&vaddr[(unsigned long)addr & ~PAGE_MASK], opcode, len);
-		local_irq_restore(flags);
-		vunmap(vaddr);
+	if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr)) {
+		pages[0] = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
+		pages[1] = vmalloc_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
+	} else {
+		pages[0] = virt_to_page(addr);
+		pages[1] = virt_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
 	}
+	BUG_ON(!pages[0]);
+	if (!pages[1])
+		nr_pages = 1;
+	vaddr = vmap(pages, nr_pages, VM_MAP, PAGE_KERNEL);
+	BUG_ON(!vaddr);
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	memcpy(&vaddr[(unsigned long)addr & ~PAGE_MASK], opcode, len);
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+	vunmap(vaddr);
 	sync_core();
 	/* Could also do a CLFLUSH here to speed up CPU recovery; but
 	   that causes hangs on some VIA CPUs. */

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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