From 32fb2fc5c357fb99616bbe100dbcb27bc7f5d045 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heiko Carstens Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 12:20:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] vmlinux.lds.h: allow arch specific handling of ro_after_init data section commit c74ba8b3480d ("arch: Introduce post-init read-only memory") introduced the __ro_after_init attribute which allows to add variables to the ro_after_init data section. This new section was added to rodata, even though it contains writable data. This in turn causes problems on architectures which mark the page table entries read-only that point to rodata very early. This patch allows architectures to implement an own handling of the .data..ro_after_init section. Usually that would be: - mark the rodata section read-only very early - mark the ro_after_init section read-only within mark_rodata_ro Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index 6a67ab94b553..c4436d072d37 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -249,6 +249,14 @@ *(.data..init_task) \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__end_init_task) = .; +/* + * Allow architectures to handle ro_after_init data on their + * own by defining an empty RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA. + */ +#ifndef RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA +#define RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA *(.data..ro_after_init) +#endif + /* * Read only Data */ @@ -257,7 +265,7 @@ .rodata : AT(ADDR(.rodata) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_rodata) = .; \ *(.rodata) *(.rodata.*) \ - *(.data..ro_after_init) /* Read only after init */ \ + RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA /* Read only after init */ \ *(__vermagic) /* Kernel version magic */ \ . = ALIGN(8); \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___tracepoints_ptrs) = .; \ -- 2.39.5