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From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Allow vmalloc regions to be set with set_memory_*
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:01:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160113000112.GA36310@ast-mbp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452635187-8057-1-git-send-email-labbott@fedoraproject.org>

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 01:46:27PM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> 
> The range of set_memory_* is currently restricted to the module address
> range because of difficulties in breaking down larger block sizes.
> vmalloc maps PAGE_SIZE pages so it is safe to use as well. Update the
> function ranges and add a comment explaining why the range is restricted
> the way it is.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
> ---
> This should let the protections for the eBPF work as expected, I don't
> know if there is some sort of self test for thatL.

you can test it with:
# sysctl net.core.bpf_jit_enable=1
# insmod test_bpf.ko

On x64 it shows:
test_bpf: Summary: 291 PASSED, 0 FAILED, [282/283 JIT'ed]

arm64 may have less JIT'ed tests.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-13  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-12 21:46 Laura Abbott
2016-01-13  0:01 ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2016-01-13  0:31   ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-01-13 14:03 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-01-13 16:10   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-01-14 23:01     ` Laura Abbott
2016-01-18 11:56     ` Mark Rutland
2016-01-28  1:47       ` Xishi Qiu
2016-01-28 10:51         ` Mark Rutland
2016-01-28 11:47           ` Xishi Qiu
2016-01-28 14:27             ` Mark Rutland
2016-01-29  1:21               ` Xishi Qiu
2016-01-29 11:02                 ` Mark Rutland
2016-01-30  2:48                   ` Xishi Qiu
2016-02-03 13:43                     ` Mark Rutland

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