Re: [PATCH] arm64: Allow vmalloc regions to be set with set_memory_*

From: Daniel Borkmann
Date: Tue Jan 12 2016 - 19:31:32 EST


On 01/13/2016 01:01 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 01:46:27PM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:

The range of set_memory_* is currently restricted to the module address
range because of difficulties in breaking down larger block sizes.
vmalloc maps PAGE_SIZE pages so it is safe to use as well. Update the
function ranges and add a comment explaining why the range is restricted
the way it is.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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This should let the protections for the eBPF work as expected, I don't
know if there is some sort of self test for thatL.

you can test it with:
# sysctl net.core.bpf_jit_enable=1
# insmod test_bpf.ko

On x64 it shows:
test_bpf: Summary: 291 PASSED, 0 FAILED, [282/283 JIT'ed]

arm64 may have less JIT'ed tests.

Also, in that lib/test_bpf.c file, you can do a test by overwriting/'corrupting'
part of the fp->insnsi instructions right after bpf_prog_select_runtime(fp) to
see if setting the bpf_prog as RO works.

Thanks,
Daniel