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Commit e836673c authored by Nadav Amit's avatar Nadav Amit Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/alternatives: Add text_poke_kgdb() to not assert the lock when debugging



text_mutex is currently expected to be held before text_poke() is
called, but kgdb does not take the mutex, and instead *supposedly*
ensures the lock is not taken and will not be acquired by any other core
while text_poke() is running.

The reason for the "supposedly" comment is that it is not entirely clear
that this would be the case if gdb_do_roundup is zero.

Create two wrapper functions, text_poke() and text_poke_kgdb(), which do
or do not run the lockdep assertion respectively.

While we are at it, change the return code of text_poke() to something
meaningful. One day, callers might actually respect it and the existing
BUG_ON() when patching fails could be removed. For kgdb, the return
value can actually be used.

Suggested-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: <deneen.t.dock@intel.com>
Cc: <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: <kristen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <linux_dti@icloud.com>
Cc: <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 9222f606

 ("x86/alternatives: Lockdep-enforce text_mutex in text_poke*()")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190426001143.4983-2-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent d5963d87
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