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From: "PaX Team" <pageexec@freemail.hu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] introduce post-init read-only memory
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 01:15:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56564F0F.3158.108D0B78@pageexec.freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1448494286-16029-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org>

On 25 Nov 2015 at 15:31, Kees Cook wrote:

> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> index c4bd0e2c173c..772c784ba763 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@
>   .rodata           : AT(ADDR(.rodata) - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\
>    VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_rodata) = .;			\
>    *(.rodata) *(.rodata.*)					\
> +		*(.data..ro_after_init)	/* Read only after init */	\
   ^^^^^^^^^^^
looks like it's tabs vs. spaces...

> +/*
> + * __read_only is used to mark things that are read-only after init (i.e.
      ^^^^^^^^^^^
i know you liked the old name but probably this one needs to change too :P

> + * after mark_rodata_ro() has been called). These are effectively read-only,
> + * but may get written to during init, so can't live in .rodata (via "const").
> + */
> +#ifndef __ro_after_init
> +#define __ro_after_init __attribute__((__section__(".data..ro_after_init")))
> +#endif



  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-26  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-25 23:31 [PATCH v2 0/4] introduce post-init read-only memory Kees Cook
2015-11-25 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] init: create cmdline param to disable readonly Kees Cook
2015-11-26  0:37   ` PaX Team
2015-11-26  0:44   ` [kernel-hardening] " Greg KH
2015-11-26  7:51   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-11-30 21:52     ` Kees Cook
2015-11-30 22:24       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-11-30 22:34         ` Kees Cook
2015-12-01  7:24         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-12-01  7:19       ` Heiko Carstens
2015-11-25 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] introduce post-init read-only memory Kees Cook
2015-11-26  0:15   ` PaX Team [this message]
2015-11-30 22:24     ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-12-09 19:35       ` Kees Cook
2015-11-25 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] lkdtm: verify that __ro_after_init works correctly Kees Cook
2015-11-25 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] x86, vdso: mark vDSO read-only after init Kees Cook

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