[PATCH v8 1/2] riscv: Introduce set_kernel_memory helper

Alexandre Ghiti alex at ghiti.fr
Thu Jun 24 05:00:40 PDT 2021


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 | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h
index 9d4d455726d4..96e317dcab13 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h
@@ -17,6 +17,16 @@ 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);
 void protect_kernel_text_data(void);
+static __always_inline int set_kernel_memory(char *startp, char *endp,
+					     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);
+}
 #else
 static inline int set_memory_ro(unsigned long addr, int numpages) { return 0; }
 static inline int set_memory_rw(unsigned long addr, int numpages) { return 0; }
@@ -24,6 +34,12 @@ 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 *startp, char *endp,
+				    int (*set_memory)(unsigned long start,
+						      int num_pages))
+{
+	return 0;
+}
 #endif
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_64BIT) && defined(CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX)
-- 
2.30.2




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