[PATCH v3 04/10] riscv: Constify sys_call_table

Jisheng Zhang jszhang3 at mail.ustc.edu.cn
Mon Apr 12 17:13:28 BST 2021


From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>

Constify the sys_call_table so that it will be placed in the .rodata
section. This will cause attempts to modify the table to fail when
strict page permissions are in place.

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>
---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h  | 2 +-
 arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h
index 49350c8bd7b0..b933b1583c9f 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/err.h>
 
 /* The array of function pointers for syscalls. */
-extern void *sys_call_table[];
+extern void * const sys_call_table[];
 
 /*
  * Only the low 32 bits of orig_r0 are meaningful, so we return int.
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c
index f1ead9df96ca..a63c667c27b3 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 #undef __SYSCALL
 #define __SYSCALL(nr, call)	[nr] = (call),
 
-void *sys_call_table[__NR_syscalls] = {
+void * const sys_call_table[__NR_syscalls] = {
 	[0 ... __NR_syscalls - 1] = sys_ni_syscall,
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
 };
-- 
2.31.0





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