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From: mat <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 V13] RO/NX protection for loadable kernel
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:18:57 +0100
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Le Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:19:51 -0800,
Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> a =E9crit :

> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 06:23:55PM +0100, mat wrote:
> > could you try the attached patch ?
> >=20
> > on module load, we sort the __jump_table section. So we should make
> > it writable.
> >=20
> >=20
> > Matthieu
>=20
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h
> > b/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h index f52d42e..574dbc2 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h
> > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
> >  	do
> > {							\ asm
> > goto("1:"					\
> > JUMP_LABEL_INITIAL_NOP			\
> > -			".pushsection __jump_table,  \"a\" \n\t"\
> > +			".pushsection __jump_table,  \"aw\" \n\t"\
> >  			_ASM_PTR "1b, %l[" #label "], %c0 \n\t" \
> >  			".popsection \n\t"			\
> >  			: :  "i" (key) :  : label);
> > \
>=20
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
>=20
> Can this please get committed to tip?
I think it is not need anymore with  Steven Rostedt patch [1]

Matthieu

[1]
> > Here we set the text read only before we call the notifiers. The
> > function tracer changes the calls to mcount into nops via a notifie=
r
> > call so this must be done after the module notifiers.