Re: [PATCH 1/3] module: Fix livepatch/ftrace module text permissions race

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Wed 2019-06-26 10:22:45, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> It is similar problem that has been solved by 2d1e38f56622b9bb5af8
> ("kprobes: Cure hotplug lock ordering issues"). This commit solved
> it by always taking cpu_hotplug_lock.rw_sem before text_mutex inside.
> 
> If we follow the lock ordering then ftrace has to take text_mutex
> only when stop_machine() is not called or from code called via
> stop_machine() parameter.
> 
> This is not easy with the current design. For example, arm calls
> set_all_modules_text_rw() already in ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare(),
> see arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c. And it is called:
> 
>   + outside stop_machine() from ftrace_run_update_code()
>   + without stop_machine() from ftrace_module_enable()
> 
> A conservative solution for 5.2 release would be to move text_mutex
> locking from the generic kernel/trace/ftrace.c into
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:
> 
>    ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare()
>    ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process()
> 
> It should be enough to fix the original problem because
> x86 is the only architecture that calls set_all_modules_text_rw()
> in ftrace path and supports livepatching at the same time.

Looks correct, but I've paged out all the gory details vs. lock ordering in
that area.

Thanks,

	tglx