Re: [PATCH] x86/ftrace: Make sure that ftrace trampolines are not RWX

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 06:25:47PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2017 21:13:27 +0200 (CEST)
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP
> > > Modules linked in:
> > > CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.12.0-rc2-test+ #42
> > > Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6
> > > 02/22/2014 task: ffff8802153a8000 task.stack: ffffc90000c74000
> > > RIP: 0010:new_slab+0x1e8/0x2b4
> > > RSP: 0000:ffffc90000c77b28 EFLAGS: 00010282
> > > RAX: 0000000040040000 RBX: ffff880216003f00 RCX: ffff880214f5c058
> > > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880214f5c000 RDI: ffff880216003f00
> > > RBP: ffffc90000c77b70 R08: 000000000000002a R09: 0000000000000000
> > > R10: 00000000000201e2 R11: 0000000000020190 R12: ffff880214f5c000
> > > R13: 000000000000002e R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffea000853d700
> > > FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88021eb80000(0000)
> > > knlGS:0000000000000000 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0:
> > > 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff880214f5c000 CR3: 000000000221d000 CR4:
> > > 00000000001406e0 Call Trace:
> > >  ? interleave_nodes+0x29/0x40
> > >  ___slab_alloc+0x2e8/0x49e  
> > 
> > That does not make any sense, but I'm digging into it.
> 
> The trampolines uses the module allocation, and it appears, that needs
> to become rw before freeing again.
> 
> I applied this patch, and it appears to fix the bug for me.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Awesome, this also cures my panic:

mcgrof@piggy ~/linux-next (git::20170524-fixwarn)$ sudo tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest 
...
# of passed:  45
# of failed:  0
# of unresolved:  0
# of untested:  0
# of unsupported:  0
# of xfailed:  0
# of undefined(test bug):  0

So the combination of both:

Tested-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>

  Luis