Commit dc1dd184 authored by Josh Poimboeuf's avatar Josh Poimboeuf Committed by Ingo Molnar

jump_label: Warn on failed jump_label patching attempt

Currently when the jump label code encounters an address which isn't
recognized by kernel_text_address(), it just silently fails.

This can be dangerous because jump labels are used in a variety of
places, and are generally expected to work.  Convert the silent failure
to a warning.

This won't warn about attempted writes to tracepoints in __init code
after initmem has been freed, as those are already guarded by the
entry->code check.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/de3a271c93807adb7ed48f4e946b4f9156617680.1519051220.git.jpoimboe@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 33352244
......@@ -367,12 +367,15 @@ static void __jump_label_update(struct static_key *key,
{
for (; (entry < stop) && (jump_entry_key(entry) == key); entry++) {
/*
* entry->code set to 0 invalidates module init text sections
* kernel_text_address() verifies we are not in core kernel
* init code, see jump_label_invalidate_module_init().
* An entry->code of 0 indicates an entry which has been
* disabled because it was in an init text area.
*/
if (entry->code && kernel_text_address(entry->code))
arch_jump_label_transform(entry, jump_label_type(entry));
if (entry->code) {
if (kernel_text_address(entry->code))
arch_jump_label_transform(entry, jump_label_type(entry));
else
WARN_ONCE(1, "can't patch jump_label at %pS", (void *)entry->code);
}
}
}
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