[PATCH v5 0/8] arm: support CONFIG_RODATA

Kees Cook
2014-09-03T21:59:20Z

This is a series of patches to support CONFIG_RODATA on ARM, so that
the kernel text is RO, and non-text sections default to NX. To support
on-the-fly kernel text patching (via ftrace, kprobes, etc), fixmap
support has been finalized based on several versions of various patches
that are floating around on the mailing list. This series attempts to
include the least intrusive version, so that others can build on it for
future fixmap work.

The series has been heavily tested, and appears to be working correctly:

With CONFIG_ARM_PTDUMP, expected page table permissions are seen in
/sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables.

Using CONFIG_LKDTM, the kernel now correctly detects bad accesses for
for the following lkdtm tests via /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT:
EXEC_DATA
WRITE_RO
WRITE_KERN

ftrace works:
CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST passes
Enabling tracing works:
echo function > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

kprobes works:
CONFIG_ARM_KPROBES_TEST passes

kexec works:
kexec will load and start a new kernel

Built with and without CONFIG_HIGHMEM, CONFIG_HIGHMEM_DEBUG, and
CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32.

Thanks to everyone who has been testing this series and working on its
various pieces!

Unless there are other concerns, I'd like to send a pull request to
rmk soon.

Thanks!

-Kees

v5:
- clean up #includes in mmu.c (will.deacon)
- optimize get_cr() test (will.deacon)
- created free_tcmmem to avoid excessive #ifdefs (will.deacon)
- explicitly test irqs_disabled in set_fixmap (will.deacon)

v4:
- expanded fixmap to 3MB to support 32 CPUs (robh)
- corrected pmd-finding via vaddr instead of FIXMAP_START (robh)
- switched structure size test to BUILD_BUG_ON (sboyd)
- added locking annotations to keep sparse happy (sboyd)
- adding missing "static" declarations noticed by sparse
- reorganized fixmap portion of patches

v3:
- more cleanups in switch to generic fixmap (lauraa, robh)
- fixed kexec merge hunk glitch (will.deacon)
- added tested-by tags where appropriate from v2 testing

v2:
- fix typo in kexec merge (buildbot)
- flip index order for highmem pte access (lauraa)
- added kgdb updates (dianders)