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Re: [PATCH] ARM: mm: mark section-aligned portion of rodata NX

From Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] ARM: mm: mark section-aligned portion of rodata NX
Date 2015-12-07 23:00 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 7 December 2015 at 21:54, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>> When rodata is large enough that it crosses a section boundary after the
>> kernel text, mark the rest NX. This is as close to full NX of rodata as
>> we can get without splitting page tables or doing section alignment via
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>> ---
>> I am baffled why I can't put the ALIGN in the ".start = " initializer.
>> GCC seems to think it's non-static, but only because of the "&" operator.
>> Does anyone see a way to do this that doesn't require the runtime ALIGN?
>
> Yes, but you need to move the ALIGN() expression to the linker script
> as the value of a new symbol

I didn't see a way to do this without actually bumping the alignment
(CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA already does that, I want the other case).
Do you have an example anywhere I could look at?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security
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[PATCH] ARM: mm: mark section-aligned portion of rodata NX Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-12-07 22:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] ARM: mm: mark section-aligned portion of rodata NX Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2015-12-07 23:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] ARM: mm: mark section-aligned portion of rodata NX Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-12-07 23:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] ARM: mm: mark section-aligned portion of rodata NX Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2015-12-07 23:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] ARM: mm: mark section-aligned portion of rodata NX Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2015-12-07 23:20 +0100

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