mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free()

module_alloc() is used everywhere as a mean to allocate memory for code.

Beside being semantically wrong, this unnecessarily ties all subsystems
that need to allocate code, such as ftrace, kprobes and BPF to modules and
puts the burden of code allocation to the modules code.

Several architectures override module_alloc() because of various
constraints where the executable memory can be located and this causes
additional obstacles for improvements of code allocation.

Start splitting code allocation from modules by introducing execmem_alloc()
and execmem_free() APIs.

Initially, execmem_alloc() is a wrapper for module_alloc() and
execmem_free() is a replacement of module_memfree() to allow updating all
call sites to use the new APIs.

Since architectures define different restrictions on placement,
permissions, alignment and other parameters for memory that can be used by
different subsystems that allocate executable memory, execmem_alloc() takes
a type argument, that will be used to identify the calling subsystem and to
allow architectures define parameters for ranges suitable for that
subsystem.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/module/Kconfig b/kernel/module/Kconfig
index cb8377a18927..4047b6d48255 100644
--- a/kernel/module/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/module/Kconfig
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 menuconfig MODULES
 	bool "Enable loadable module support"
 	modules
+	select EXECMEM
 	help
 	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
 	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
index 5b82b069e0d3..d56b7df0cbb6 100644
--- a/kernel/module/main.c
+++ b/kernel/module/main.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 #include <linux/audit.h>
 #include <linux/cfi.h>
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
+#include <linux/execmem.h>
 #include <uapi/linux/module.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
@@ -1179,16 +1180,6 @@ resolve_symbol_wait(struct module *mod,
 	return ksym;
 }
 
-void __weak module_memfree(void *module_region)
-{
-	/*
-	 * This memory may be RO, and freeing RO memory in an interrupt is not
-	 * supported by vmalloc.
-	 */
-	WARN_ON(in_interrupt());
-	vfree(module_region);
-}
-
 void __weak module_arch_cleanup(struct module *mod)
 {
 }
@@ -1213,7 +1204,7 @@ static int module_memory_alloc(struct module *mod, enum mod_mem_type type)
 	if (mod_mem_use_vmalloc(type))
 		ptr = vmalloc(size);
 	else
-		ptr = module_alloc(size);
+		ptr = execmem_alloc(EXECMEM_MODULE_TEXT, size);
 
 	if (!ptr)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1244,7 +1235,7 @@ static void module_memory_free(struct module *mod, enum mod_mem_type type)
 	if (mod_mem_use_vmalloc(type))
 		vfree(ptr);
 	else
-		module_memfree(ptr);
+		execmem_free(ptr);
 }
 
 static void free_mod_mem(struct module *mod)
@@ -2496,9 +2487,9 @@ static void do_free_init(struct work_struct *w)
 
 	llist_for_each_safe(pos, n, list) {
 		initfree = container_of(pos, struct mod_initfree, node);
-		module_memfree(initfree->init_text);
-		module_memfree(initfree->init_data);
-		module_memfree(initfree->init_rodata);
+		execmem_free(initfree->init_text);
+		execmem_free(initfree->init_data);
+		execmem_free(initfree->init_rodata);
 		kfree(initfree);
 	}
 }
@@ -2608,10 +2599,10 @@ static noinline int do_init_module(struct module *mod)
 	 * We want to free module_init, but be aware that kallsyms may be
 	 * walking this with preempt disabled.  In all the failure paths, we
 	 * call synchronize_rcu(), but we don't want to slow down the success
-	 * path. module_memfree() cannot be called in an interrupt, so do the
+	 * path. execmem_free() cannot be called in an interrupt, so do the
 	 * work and call synchronize_rcu() in a work queue.
 	 *
-	 * Note that module_alloc() on most architectures creates W+X page
+	 * Note that execmem_alloc() on most architectures creates W+X page
 	 * mappings which won't be cleaned up until do_free_init() runs.  Any
 	 * code such as mark_rodata_ro() which depends on those mappings to
 	 * be cleaned up needs to sync with the queued work by invoking