Re: Undoing module RONX protection fix

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Fri Apr 29 2011 - 02:51:28 EST


On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:43:21 +0200, Jan Glauber <jang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:06:39PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:08:20 +0200, Jan Glauber <jang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > How about this?
> > >
> > > To be honest I don't like the inverse naming like in unset no-execute
> > > too much, it makes me feel dizzy. But I wanted to keep the changes
> > > minimal.
> >
> > Yes, it should probably just be called protect_module_pages and
> > unprotect_module_pages. The current names provide far too much
> > information.
> >
> > But going back a bit, how did we end up with a NULL mod->module_init and
> > yet module->init_text_size, mod->init_size or mod->init_ro_size
> > non-zero?
>
> printk'ing this reveals that mod->init_ro_size is not 0 but 0x1000.
> Therefore the first page was modified.
>
> Looks like init_ro_size is missing the reset to zero at the end of the init_module
> syscall. Next patch ? ;-

Yes, that seems like a much cleaner and clearer fix to me...

Thanks,
Rusty.
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