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charset="UTF-8" From: Ard Biesheuvel The empty zero page is used to back any kernel or user space mapping that is supposed to remain cleared, and so the page itself is never supposed to be modified. So mark it as const, which moves it into .rodata rather than .bss: on most architectures, this ensures that both the kernel's mapping of it and any aliases that are accessible via the kernel direct (linear) map are mapped read-only, and cannot be used (inadvertently or maliciously) to corrupt the contents of the zero page. Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Reviewed-by: Jann Horn Reviewed-by: Feng Tang Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel --- include/linux/pgtable.h | 2 +- mm/mm_init.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h index cdd68ed3ae1a..67aa23814010 100644 --- a/include/linux/pgtable.h +++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h @@ -1993,7 +1993,7 @@ static inline unsigned long zero_pfn(unsigned long addr) return zero_page_pfn; } -extern uint8_t empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE]; +extern const uint8_t empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE]; extern struct page *__zero_page; static inline struct page *_zero_page(unsigned long addr) diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c index f9f8e1af921c..46cf001238c5 100644 --- a/mm/mm_init.c +++ b/mm/mm_init.c @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ unsigned long zero_page_pfn __ro_after_init; EXPORT_SYMBOL(zero_page_pfn); #ifndef __HAVE_COLOR_ZERO_PAGE -uint8_t empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE] __page_aligned_bss; +const uint8_t empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE] __aligned(PAGE_SIZE); EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page); struct page *__zero_page __ro_after_init; -- 2.54.0.794.g4f17f83d09-goog