From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+git@google.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, will@kernel.org,
catalin.marinas@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Liz Prucka <lizprucka@google.com>,
Seth Jenkins <sethjenkins@google.com>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 11/13] arm64: mm: Don't abuse memblock NOMAP to check for overlaps
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 17:16:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260519151616.2557018-26-ardb+git@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260519151616.2557018-15-ardb+git@google.com>
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Now that the DRAM mapping routines respect existing table mappings and
contiguous block and page mappings, it is no longer needed to fiddle
with the memblock tables to set and clear the NOMAP attribute in order
to omit text and rodata when creating the linear map.
Instead, map the kernel text and rodata alias first with the desired
attributes, so that they will not be remapped later with different
attributes when mapping the memblocks.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 24 +++++++-------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index d4ad9e4766a6..dcff1a538f20 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1148,12 +1148,15 @@ static void __init map_mem(void)
flags |= NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS;
/*
- * Take care not to create a writable alias for the
- * read-only text and rodata sections of the kernel image.
- * So temporarily mark them as NOMAP to skip mappings in
- * the following for-loop
+ * Map the linear alias of the [_text, __init_begin) interval
+ * as non-executable now, and remove the write permission in
+ * mark_linear_text_alias_ro() above (which will be called after
+ * alternative patching has completed). This makes the contents
+ * of the region accessible to subsystems such as hibernate,
+ * but protects it from inadvertent modification or execution.
*/
- memblock_mark_nomap(kernel_start, kernel_end - kernel_start);
+ __map_memblock(kernel_start, kernel_end, pgprot_tagged(PAGE_KERNEL),
+ flags);
/* map all the memory banks */
for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
@@ -1165,17 +1168,6 @@ static void __init map_mem(void)
__map_memblock(start, end, pgprot_tagged(PAGE_KERNEL),
flags);
}
-
- /*
- * Map the linear alias of the [_text, __init_begin) interval
- * as non-executable now, and remove the write permission in
- * mark_linear_text_alias_ro() below (which will be called after
- * alternative patching has completed). This makes the contents
- * of the region accessible to subsystems such as hibernate,
- * but protects it from inadvertent modification or execution.
- */
- __map_memblock(kernel_start, kernel_end, pgprot_tagged(PAGE_KERNEL), 0);
- memblock_clear_nomap(kernel_start, kernel_end - kernel_start);
}
void mark_rodata_ro(void)
--
2.54.0.563.g4f69b47b94-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-19 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-19 15:16 [PATCH v5 00/13] arm64: Unmap linear alias of kernel data/bss Ard Biesheuvel
2026-05-19 15:16 ` [PATCH v5 01/13] arm64: mm: Map the linear alias of text/rodata as tagged Ard Biesheuvel
2026-05-19 15:16 ` [PATCH v5 02/13] mm: Make empty_zero_page[] const Ard Biesheuvel
2026-05-19 15:16 ` [PATCH v5 03/13] arm64: mm: Preserve existing table mappings when mapping DRAM Ard Biesheuvel
2026-05-19 15:16 ` [PATCH v5 04/13] arm64: mm: Preserve non-contiguous descriptors " Ard Biesheuvel
2026-05-19 15:16 ` [PATCH v5 05/13] arm64: mm: Remove bogus stop condition from map_mem() loop Ard Biesheuvel
2026-05-19 15:16 ` [PATCH v5 06/13] arm64: mm: Drop redundant pgd_t* argument from map_mem() Ard Biesheuvel
2026-05-19 15:16 ` [PATCH v5 07/13] arm64: mm: Permit contiguous descriptors to be rewritten Ard Biesheuvel
2026-05-19 15:16 ` [PATCH v5 08/13] arm64: kfence: Avoid NOMAP tricks when mapping the early pool Ard Biesheuvel
2026-05-19 15:16 ` [PATCH v5 09/13] arm64: mm: Permit contiguous attribute for preliminary mappings Ard Biesheuvel
2026-05-19 15:16 ` [PATCH v5 10/13] arm64: Move fixmap page tables to end of kernel image Ard Biesheuvel
2026-05-19 15:16 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2026-05-19 15:16 ` [PATCH v5 12/13] arm64: mm: Map the kernel data/bss read-only in the linear map Ard Biesheuvel
2026-05-19 15:16 ` [PATCH v5 13/13] arm64: mm: Unmap kernel data/bss entirely from " Ard Biesheuvel
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