[PATCH v7 1/2] riscv: Introduce set_kernel_memory helper

[Jisheng Zhang]

Hi Alex,

On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:21:33 +0200
Alexandre Ghiti <alex at ghiti.fr> wrote:

> This helper should be used for setting permissions to the kernel
> mapping as it takes pointers as arguments and then avoids explicit cast
> to unsigned long needed for the set_memory_* API.
> 
> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex at ghiti.fr>
> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h |  8 ++++++++
>  arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c            | 11 +++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h
> index 9d4d455726d4..4f9fc54d1806 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h
> @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ int set_memory_rw(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
>  int set_memory_x(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
>  int set_memory_nx(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
>  int set_memory_rw_nx(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
> +int set_kernel_memory(char *start, char *end,
> +		      int (*set_memory)(unsigned long start, int num_pages));
>  void protect_kernel_text_data(void);
>  #else
>  static inline int set_memory_ro(unsigned long addr, int numpages) { return 0; }
> @@ -24,6 +26,12 @@ static inline int set_memory_x(unsigned long addr, int numpages) { return 0; }
>  static inline int set_memory_nx(unsigned long addr, int numpages) { return 0; }
>  static inline void protect_kernel_text_data(void) {}
>  static inline int set_memory_rw_nx(unsigned long addr, int numpages) { return 0; }
> +static inline int set_kernel_memory(char *start, char *end,
> +				    int (*set_memory)(unsigned long start,
> +						      int num_pages))
> +{
> +	return 0;
> +}
>  #endif
>  
>  #if defined(CONFIG_64BIT) && defined(CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX)
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c
> index 5e49e4b4a4cc..11d0b0f4c65d 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c
> @@ -156,6 +156,17 @@ int set_memory_nx(unsigned long addr, int numpages)
>  	return __set_memory(addr, numpages, __pgprot(0), __pgprot(_PAGE_EXEC));
>  }
>  
> +__always_inline int set_kernel_memory(char *startp, char *endp,

If __always_inline, can it be moved to set_memory.h?

Thanks

> +				      int (*set_memory)(unsigned long start,
> +							int num_pages))
> +{
> +	unsigned long start = (unsigned long)startp;
> +	unsigned long end = (unsigned long)endp;
> +	int num_pages = PAGE_ALIGN(end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +
> +	return set_memory(start, num_pages);
> +}
> +
>  int set_direct_map_invalid_noflush(struct page *page)
>  {
>  	int ret;