[PATCH] arm64: page-align sections for DEBUG_RODATA

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Oct 26 14:42:33 PDT 2015


A kernel built with DEBUG_RO_DATA && !CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA doesn't
have .text aligned to a page boundary, though fixup_executable works at
page-granularity thanks to its use of create_mapping. If .text is not
page-aligned, the first page it exists in may be marked non-executable,
leading to failures when an attempt is made to execute code in said
page.

This patch upgrades ALIGN_DEBUG_RO and ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN to force page
alignment for DEBUG_RO_DATA && !CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA kernels,
ensuring that all sections with specific RWX permission requirements are
mapped with the correct permissions.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Reported-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Laura Abbott <laura at labbott.name>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Note: this is intended to supercede [1,2].

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-October/380486.html
[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-October/380999.html

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 9807333..4d77757 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -60,9 +60,12 @@ PECOFF_FILE_ALIGNMENT = 0x200;
 #define PECOFF_EDATA_PADDING
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA
+#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA)
 #define ALIGN_DEBUG_RO			. = ALIGN(1<<SECTION_SHIFT);
 #define ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN(min)		ALIGN_DEBUG_RO
+#elif defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA)
+#define ALIGN_DEBUG_RO			. = ALIGN(1<<PAGE_SHIFT);
+#define ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN(min)		ALIGN_DEBUG_RO
 #else
 #define ALIGN_DEBUG_RO
 #define ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN(min)		. = ALIGN(min);
-- 
1.9.1




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