Re: [kernel-hardening][PATCH v3 1/3] arm: mm: dump: make page table dumping reusable

[Jinbum Park]

>> +#ifndef __ASM_PTDUMP_H
>> +#define __ASM_PTDUMP_H
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_PTDUMP_CORE
>
> Is this #ifdef needed? I think this file is only included in dump.c
> and ptdump_debugfs.c, both of which are only built when
> CONFIG_ARM_PTDUMP_CORE is defined.

Looking at next patch in this patch-set series ([PATCH v3 3/3] arm:
mm: dump: add checking for writable and executable pages),
Not only dump.c and ptdump_debugfs.c but also arch/arm/mm/init.c
include this file (ptdump.h) to call debug_checkwx().
mm/init.c is not built only when CONFIG_ARM_PTDUMP_CORE is defined.
So, This #ifdef seems not be needed for this patch, but is needed for
this patch-set series.


>> +static int ptdump_init(void)
>> +{
>> +       ptdump_initialize();
>> +       return ptdump_debugfs_register(&kernel_ptdump_info,
>> +                                       "kernel_page_tables");
>
> This changes the return value of ptdump_init. This should do similar
> to what was done before:
>
> return ptdump_debugfs_register(&kernel_ptdump_info,
> "kernel_page_tables") ? 0 : -ENOMEM;


ptdump_debugfs_register() already returns what you think.

>> +int ptdump_debugfs_register(struct ptdump_info *info, const char *name)
>> +{
>> +       struct dentry *pe;
>> +
>> +       pe = debugfs_create_file(name, 0400, NULL, info, &ptdump_fops);
>> +       return pe ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
>> +
>> +}

So "return ptdump_debugfs_register(~~)" is fine.


Thanks.
Jinbum Park.