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Currently execmem_cache_free() ignores potential allocation failures that may happen in execmem_cache_add(). Besides, it uses text poking to fill the memory with trapping instructions before returning it to cache although it would be more efficient to make that memory writable, update it using memcpy and then restore ROX protection. Rework execmem_cache_free() so that in case of an error it will defer freeing of the memory to a delayed work. With this the happy fast path will now change permissions to RW, fill the memory with trapping instructions using memcpy, restore ROX permissions, add the memory back to the free cache and clear the relevant entry in busy_areas. If any step in the fast path fails, the entry in busy_areas will be marked as pending_free. These entries will be handled by a delayed work and freed asynchronously. To make the fast path faster, use __GFP_NORETRY for memory allocations and let asynchronous handler try harder with GFP_KERNEL. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250713071730.4117334-4-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.