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SubjectRe: [PATCH 18/29] arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
Hi Kees,

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 10:55:51AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> The EXCEPTION_TABLE is read-only, so collapse it into RO_DATA.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index 81d94e371c95..c6ba2eee0ee8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
> * Written by Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
> */
>
> +#define RO_DATA_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN 8
> +
> #include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
> #include <asm/cache.h>
> #include <asm/kernel-pgtable.h>
> @@ -135,8 +137,8 @@ SECTIONS
> . = ALIGN(SEGMENT_ALIGN);
> _etext = .; /* End of text section */
>
> - RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE) /* everything from this point to */
> - EXCEPTION_TABLE(8) /* __init_begin will be marked RO NX */
> + /* everything from this point to __init_begin will be marked RO NX */
> + RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
>
> . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);

Do you reckon it would be worth merging this last ALIGN directive into the
RO_DATA definition too? Given that we want to map the thing read-only, it
really has to be aligned either side.

Anyway, that's only a nit, so:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

Will

P.S. Please CC the arm64 maintainers on arm64 patches -- I nearly missed
this one!

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