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| author | Kees Cook | 2016-02-17 23:41:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar | 2016-02-22 08:51:38 +0100 |
| commit | 9ccaf77cf05915f51231d158abfd5448aedde758 (patch) | |
| tree | d6cd4476921b59c2e20773ea585792a867dc328b /arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | |
| parent | mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel ... (diff) | |
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x86/mm: Always enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and remove the Kconfig option
This removes the CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA option and makes it always enabled.
This simplifies the code and also makes it clearer that read-only mapped
memory is just as fundamental a security feature in kernel-space as it is
in user-space.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index 2440814b0069..2450488f39ef 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ static inline pgprot_t static_protections(pgprot_t prot, unsigned long address, __pa_symbol(__end_rodata) >> PAGE_SHIFT)) pgprot_val(forbidden) |= _PAGE_RW; -#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA) +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) /* * Once the kernel maps the text as RO (kernel_set_to_readonly is set), * kernel text mappings for the large page aligned text, rodata sections |