[PATCH -fixes v2] riscv: Check if the code to patch lies in the exit section

From: Alexandre Ghiti
Date: Thu Dec 14 2023 - 04:19:34 EST


Otherwise we fall through to vmalloc_to_page() which panics since the
address does not lie in the vmalloc region.

Fixes: 043cb41a85de ("riscv: introduce interfaces to patch kernel code")
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes in v2:
- Fix XIP rv32 build failure

arch/riscv/include/asm/sections.h | 1 +
arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c | 11 ++++++++++-
arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S | 2 ++
arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 ++
4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/sections.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/sections.h
index 32336e8a17cb..a393d5035c54 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/sections.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/sections.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ extern char _start_kernel[];
extern char __init_data_begin[], __init_data_end[];
extern char __init_text_begin[], __init_text_end[];
extern char __alt_start[], __alt_end[];
+extern char __exittext_begin[], __exittext_end[];

static inline bool is_va_kernel_text(uintptr_t va)
{
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c
index 13ee7bf589a1..37e87fdcf6a0 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <asm/fixmap.h>
#include <asm/ftrace.h>
#include <asm/patch.h>
+#include <asm/sections.h>

struct patch_insn {
void *addr;
@@ -25,6 +26,14 @@ struct patch_insn {
int riscv_patch_in_stop_machine = false;

#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
+
+static inline bool is_kernel_exittext(uintptr_t addr)
+{
+ return system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING &&
+ addr >= (uintptr_t)__exittext_begin &&
+ addr < (uintptr_t)__exittext_end;
+}
+
/*
* The fix_to_virt(, idx) needs a const value (not a dynamic variable of
* reg-a0) or BUILD_BUG_ON failed with "idx >= __end_of_fixed_addresses".
@@ -35,7 +44,7 @@ static __always_inline void *patch_map(void *addr, const unsigned int fixmap)
uintptr_t uintaddr = (uintptr_t) addr;
struct page *page;

- if (core_kernel_text(uintaddr))
+ if (core_kernel_text(uintaddr) || is_kernel_exittext(uintaddr))
page = phys_to_page(__pa_symbol(addr));
else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX))
page = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S
index 50767647fbc6..8c3daa1b0531 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S
@@ -29,10 +29,12 @@ SECTIONS
HEAD_TEXT_SECTION
INIT_TEXT_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
/* we have to discard exit text and such at runtime, not link time */
+ __exittext_begin = .;
.exit.text :
{
EXIT_TEXT
}
+ __exittext_end = .;

.text : {
_text = .;
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 492dd4b8f3d6..002ca58dd998 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -69,10 +69,12 @@ SECTIONS
__soc_builtin_dtb_table_end = .;
}
/* we have to discard exit text and such at runtime, not link time */
+ __exittext_begin = .;
.exit.text :
{
EXIT_TEXT
}
+ __exittext_end = .;

__init_text_end = .;
. = ALIGN(SECTION_ALIGN);
--
2.39.2