[PATCH] arm64: always enable DEBUG_RODATA and remove the Kconfig option
From: Laura Abbott <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-25 18:20:26
On 08/25/2016 09:23 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
Follow the example set by x86 in commit 9ccaf77cf05915f5 ("x86/mm:
Always enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and remove the Kconfig option"), and
make these protections a fundamental security feature rather than an
opt-in. This also results in a minor code simplification.
For those rare cases when users wish to disable this protection (e.g.
for debugging), this can be done by passing 'rodata=off' on the command
line.
As DEBUG_RODATA_ALIGN is only intended to address a performance/memory
tradeoff, and does not affect correctness, this is left user-selectable.
DEBUG_MODULE_RONX is also left user-selectable until the core code
provides a boot-time option to disable the protection for debugging
use-cases.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <redacted>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
Cc: Laura Abbott <redacted>
Cc: Will Deacon <redacted>Excellent! Acked-by: Laura Abbott <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 3 +++ arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug | 10 ---------- arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index bc3f00f..43d6134 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT config MMU def_bool y +config DEBUG_RODATA + def_bool y + config ARM64_PAGE_SHIFT int default 16 if ARM64_64K_PAGESdiff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug index 0cc758c..b661fe7 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug@@ -49,16 +49,6 @@ config DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX If in doubt, say Y. -config DEBUG_RODATA - bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" - default y - help - If this is set, kernel text and rodata will be made read-only. This - is to help catch accidental or malicious attempts to change the - kernel's executable code. - - If in doubt, say Y. - config DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA depends on DEBUG_RODATA bool "Align linker sections up to SECTION_SIZE"diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c index 63f9432..178488f 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ static void __kprobes *patch_map(void *addr, int fixmap) if (module && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX)) page = vmalloc_to_page(addr); - else if (!module && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA)) + else if (!module) page = pfn_to_page(PHYS_PFN(__pa(addr))); else return addr;