[RFC PATCH tip/master 0/8] kprobes/x86: Make kprobes instruction buffers read-only

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Hi,

This series tries to make kprobes instruction buffers read-only
pages. Since those buffers are used for trampoline code, those
are a part of "text area" and it should be marked as ro for
avoiding unexpected modification. And this actually fix a warning
rodata sanity check.

This change requires changing the kprobe-booster at first
because it can modify the instruction buffer to add a jump while
resuming from single-stepping. Of course after we make the buffer
readonly, we may not be able to modify it while probing.

So, at first this series checks the current bootable instructions
and fixes a missed instruction (call far), modifies can_boost to
use x86 instruction decoder, and inserts "booster" jump while
preparing instruction buffer instead of resuming from single-stepping.
At last, it makes the buffers for kprobes and optprobe readonly.

This series also has some cleanup patches related to above 
changes.

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Masami Hiramatsu (8):
      kprobes/x86: Fix not to boost call far instruction
      kprobes/x86: Fix the description of __copy_instruction()
      kprobes/x86: Use instruction decoder for booster
      kprobes/x86: Do not modify singlestep buffer while resuming
      kprobes/x86: Make boostable flag boolean
      kprobes/x86: Set kprobes pages readonly
      kprobes/x86: Use probe_kernel_read instead of memcpy
      kprobes/x86: Consolidate insn decoder users for copying code


 arch/x86/include/asm/kprobes.h   |    7 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/common.h |    4 +
 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c   |  143 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/ftrace.c |    2 -
 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c    |   13 +++
 5 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)

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Masami Hiramatsu (Linaro) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>