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Russell Currey authored
Livepatching a loaded module involves applying relocations through apply_relocate_add(), which attempts to write to read-only memory when CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX=y. Work around this by performing these writes through the text poke area by using patch_instruction(). R_PPC_REL24 is the only relocation type generated by the kpatch-build userspace tool or klp-convert kernel tree that I observed applying a relocation to a post-init module. A more comprehensive solution is planned, but using patch_instruction() for R_PPC_REL24 on should serve as a sufficient fix. This does have a performance impact, I observed ~15% overhead in module_load() on POWER8 bare metal with checksum verification off. Fixes: c35717c7 ("powerpc: Set ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.14+ Reported-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc> Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> [mpe: Check return codes from patch_instruction()] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211214121248.777249-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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