Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/modules: Make x86 allocs to flush when free

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:07:54 -0800 Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Change the module allocations to flush before freeing the pages.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
> @@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
>  	p = __vmalloc_node_range(size, MODULE_ALIGN,
>  				    MODULES_VADDR + get_module_load_offset(),
>  				    MODULES_END, GFP_KERNEL,
> -				    PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, 0, NUMA_NO_NODE,
> -				    __builtin_return_address(0));
> +				    PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, VM_IMMEDIATE_UNMAP,
> +				    NUMA_NO_NODE, __builtin_return_address(0));
>  	if (p && (kasan_module_alloc(p, size) < 0)) {
>  		vfree(p);
>  		return NULL;

Should any other architectures do this?