The following commit has been merged into the x86/build branch of tip: Commit-ID: f0d7ee17d57c7a8510518a1e60366d053e2f3ff5 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/f0d7ee17d57c7a8510518a1e60366d053e2f3ff5 Author: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> AuthorDate: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:13:38 -07:00 Committer: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> CommitterDate: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 17:55:02 +01:00
x86/vmlinux: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment The exception table was needlessly marked executable. In preparation for execute-only memory, move the table into the RO_DATA segment via the new macro that can be used by any architectures that want to make a similar consolidation. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carst...@de.ibm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> Cc: linux-al...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-a...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-c6x-...@linux-c6x.org Cc: linux-i...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-s...@vger.kernel.org Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Simek <mon...@monstr.eu> Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgeco...@intel.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwis...@chromium.org> Cc: Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com> Cc: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org> Cc: x86-ml <x...@kernel.org> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ys...@users.sourceforge.jp> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-17-keesc...@chromium.org --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index a1a758e..b06d6e1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #endif #define EMITS_PT_NOTE +#define RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN 16 #include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h> #include <asm/asm-offsets.h> @@ -145,8 +146,6 @@ SECTIONS #endif } :text = 0x9090 - EXCEPTION_TABLE(16) - /* End of text section, which should occupy whole number of pages */ _etext = .; . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
