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bh=bcrl0Dq8YQBZ2y6oSLTxv/uZS/MgfYTkD9gOirfShVU=; b=owGbwMvMwCVmkMcZplerG8N4Wi2JIUv0fppn5XvTONsranx8M7mVQs+XJQdo2RuuSWq7JaMf9 7fh7PqOUhYGMS4GWTFFFoHZf9/tPD1RqtZ5lizMHFYmkCEMXJwCMJEXcowMtw6WZR/exrN7YplZ UMhusfI9n1W/fnxWF5Br8bb/o5j6XUaG9kh5ycXzfXi7yhR03u2bYfF33raUQN5POWLfbh9Jdln ECgA= X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.54.0.794.g4f17f83d09-goog Message-ID: <20260526175846.2694125-28-ardb+git@google.com> Subject: [PATCH v6 11/15] arm64: mm: Map the kernel data/bss read-only in the linear map From: Ard Biesheuvel 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 , Ryan Roberts , Anshuman Khandual , Liz Prucka , Seth Jenkins , Kees Cook , Mike Rapoport , David Hildenbrand , Andrew Morton , Jann Horn , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" From: Ard Biesheuvel On systems where the bootloader adheres to the original arm64 boot protocol, the placement of the kernel in the physical address space is highly predictable, and this makes the placement of its linear alias in the kernel virtual address space equally predictable, given the lack of randomization of the linear map. The linear aliases of the kernel text and rodata regions are already mapped read-only, but the kernel data and bss are mapped read-write in this region. This is not needed, so map them read-only as well. Note that the statically allocated kernel page tables do need to be modifiable via the linear map, so leave these mapped read-write. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel --- arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c index b20c76b8381d..e7ca53d20b87 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c @@ -1138,7 +1138,9 @@ static void __init map_mem(void) { static const u64 direct_map_end = _PAGE_END(VA_BITS_MIN); phys_addr_t kernel_start = __pa_symbol(_text); - phys_addr_t kernel_end = __pa_symbol(__init_begin); + phys_addr_t init_begin = __pa_symbol(__init_begin); + phys_addr_t init_end = __pa_symbol(__init_end); + phys_addr_t kernel_end = __pa_symbol(__bss_stop); phys_addr_t start, end; int flags = NO_EXEC_MAPPINGS; u64 i; @@ -1171,7 +1173,11 @@ static void __init map_mem(void) * of the region accessible to subsystems such as hibernate, * but protects it from inadvertent modification or execution. */ - __map_memblock(kernel_start, kernel_end, PAGE_KERNEL, flags); + __map_memblock(kernel_start, init_begin, PAGE_KERNEL, flags); + + /* Map the kernel data/bss so it can be remapped later */ + __map_memblock(init_end, kernel_end, pgprot_tagged(PAGE_KERNEL), + flags); /* map all the memory banks */ for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) { @@ -1183,6 +1189,11 @@ static void __init map_mem(void) __map_memblock(start, end, pgprot_tagged(PAGE_KERNEL), flags); } + + /* Map the kernel data/bss read-only in the linear map */ + __map_memblock(init_end, kernel_end, PAGE_KERNEL_RO, flags); + flush_tlb_kernel_range((unsigned long)lm_alias(__init_end), + (unsigned long)lm_alias(__bss_stop)); } void mark_rodata_ro(void) -- 2.54.0.794.g4f17f83d09-goog