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From: qiuxishi@huawei•com (Xishi Qiu)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Have any influence on set_memory_** about below patch ??
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:35:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56979621.1060102@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160113111806.GC23370@leverpostej>

On 2016/1/13 19:18, Mark Rutland wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 06:30:06PM +0800, Xishi Qiu wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> If I create swapper page tables by 4kb, not large page, then I use
>> set_memory_ro() to change the pate table flag, does it have the problem
>> too?
> 
> The splitting/merging problem would not apply.
> 
> However, you're going to waste a reasonable amount of memory by not
> using section mappings in the swapper, and we gain additional complexity
> in the page table setup code (which is shared with others things that
> want section mappings).
> 
> What are you exactly actually trying to achieve?
> 

If module allocates some pages and save data on them, and the data will
not be changed during the module running. So we want to use set_memory_ro()
to increase the security. If the data is changed, we can catch someone.

> What memory do you want to mark RO, and why?
> 

The key data, and it will not be changed during the running time.

>>From a previous discussion [1], we figured out alternative approaches
> for common cases. Do none of those work for your case?
> 

I have not read the patchset carefully, could you tell me the general meaning
of the approaches?

Thanks,
Xishi Qiu

> Thanks,
> Mark.
> 
> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-January/397320.html
> 
> .
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-14 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5693A740.7070408@huawei.com>
     [not found] ` <20160111133145.GM6499@leverpostej>
2016-01-12  1:20   ` Have any influence on set_memory_** about below patch ?? Xishi Qiu
2016-01-12 11:15     ` Mark Rutland
2016-01-13  4:10       ` Xishi Qiu
2016-01-13 11:22         ` Mark Rutland
2016-01-13  5:02       ` Xishi Qiu
2016-01-13  6:35         ` Xishi Qiu
2016-01-13 11:28         ` Mark Rutland
2016-01-27  1:18           ` Xishi Qiu
2016-01-27 11:25             ` Mark Rutland
2016-01-26 14:05         ` zhong jiang
2016-01-26 16:07           ` Mark Rutland
2016-01-13 10:30       ` Xishi Qiu
2016-01-13 11:18         ` Mark Rutland
2016-01-14 12:35           ` Xishi Qiu [this message]
2016-01-14 13:06             ` Xishi Qiu
2016-01-14 13:44               ` Mark Rutland

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