Re: [PATCH] module: Fix load failure when CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX is diabled

[He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>]

On 8/14/19 1:59 AM, Jessica Yu wrote:
> +++ zhe.he@windriver.com [10/08/19 15:22 +0800]:
>> From: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
>>
>> When loading modules with CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX enabled and
>> CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX disabled, the memory allocated for modules would
>> not be page-aligned and cause the following BUG during frob_text.
>>
>> ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> kernel BUG at kernel/module.c:1907!
>> Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] ARM
>> Modules linked in:
>> CPU: 0 PID: 89 Comm: systemd-modules Not tainted 5.3.0-rc2 #1
>> Hardware name: ARM-Versatile (Device Tree Support)
>> PC is at frob_text.constprop.0+0x2c/0x40
>> LR is at load_module+0x14b4/0x1d28
>> pc : [<c0082930>]    lr : [<c0084bb0>]    psr: 20000013
>> sp : ce44fe58  ip : 00000000  fp : 00000000
>> r10: 00000000  r9 : ce44feb8  r8 : 00000000
>> r7 : 00000001  r6 : bf00032c  r5 : ce44ff40  r4 : bf000320
>> r3 : bf000400  r2 : 00000fff  r1 : 00000220  r0 : bf000000
>> Flags: nzCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment none
>> Control: 00093177  Table: 0e4c0000  DAC: 00000051
>> Process systemd-modules (pid: 89, stack limit = 0x9fccc8dc)
>> Stack: (0xce44fe58 to 0xce450000)
>> fe40:                                                       00000000 cf1b05b8
>> fe60: 00000001 ce47cf08 bf002754 c07ae5d8 d0a2a484 bf002060 bf0004f8 00000000
>> fe80: b6d17910 c017cf1c ce47cf00 d0a29000 ce47cf00 ce44ff34 000014fc 00000000
>> fea0: 00000000 00000000 bf00025c 00000001 00000000 00000000 6e72656b 00006c65
>> fec0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> fee0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c0ac9048 7fffffff 00000000
>> ff00: b6d17910 00000005 0000017b c0009208 ce44e000 00000000 b6ebfe54 c008562c
>> ff20: 7fffffff 00000000 00000003 cefd28f8 00000001 d0a29000 000014fc 00000000
>> ff40: d0a292cb d0a29380 d0a29000 000014fc d0a29f0c d0a29d90 d0a29a60 00000520
>> ff60: 00000710 00000718 00000826 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000708 00000023
>> ff80: 00000024 0000001c 00000000 00000016 00000000 c0ac9048 0041c620 00000000
>> ffa0: 00000000 c0009000 0041c620 00000000 00000005 b6d17910 00000000 00000000
>> ffc0: 0041c620 00000000 00000000 0000017b 0041f078 00000000 004098b0 b6ebfe54
>> ffe0: bedb6bc8 bedb6bb8 b6d0f91c b6c945a0 60000010 00000005 00000000 00000000
>> [<c0082930>] (frob_text.constprop.0) from [<c0084bb0>] (load_module+0x14b4/0x1d28)
>> [<c0084bb0>] (load_module) from [<c008562c>] (sys_finit_module+0xa0/0xc4)
>> [<c008562c>] (sys_finit_module) from [<c0009000>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x50)
>> Exception stack(0xce44ffa8 to 0xce44fff0)
>> ffa0:                   0041c620 00000000 00000005 b6d17910 00000000 00000000
>> ffc0: 0041c620 00000000 00000000 0000017b 0041f078 00000000 004098b0 b6ebfe54
>> ffe0: bedb6bc8 bedb6bb8 b6d0f91c b6c945a0
>> Code: e7f001f2 e5931008 e1110002 0a000001 (e7f001f2)
>> ---[ end trace e904557128d9aed5 ]---
>>
>> This patch enables page-aligned allocation when
>> CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX is enabled.
>>
>> Fixes: 93651f80dcb6 ("modules: fix compile error if don't have strict module rwx")
>> Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
>
> Hi!
>
> I have already committed a fix for this to modules-next and plan to
> send a pull request next week.

Thanks for pointing out :)

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux.git/commit/?h=modules-next&id=38f054d549a869f22a02224cd276a27bf14b6171

But I'd suggest we should keep the case of "define debug_align(X) (X)" for all
the rest arches without CONFIG_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX ability, which would save
people who are sensitive to system size a lot of memory when using modules,
especially for embedded systems, as this patch did. This seems the original
intention of this #ifdef... statement and still valid for now.

Zhe

>
> Thanks!
>
> Jessica
>