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Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata

From "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata
Date 2015-09-28 23:20 +0200
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On 09/25/2015 12:22 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> To me it looks like another alignment/padding issue like got fixed
>> before. The space between __ex_table and rodata is (seems?) unused, so
>> the default page table permissions end up being W+X. Can we fix the
>> default to be NX instead? It'll make these bugs stay gone.
> 
> Yeah. Wanna send a patch for that?
> 

At least in the high mapping space, the default should be no permissions
(not present), rather than just NX.

	-hpa


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Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-09-25 00:30 +0200
  Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-09-25 09:30 +0200
  Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-09-25 09:30 +0200
    Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-09-26 18:50 +0200
    Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-09-28 23:20 +0200
      Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-09-29 00:10 +0200
        Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-09-29 00:30 +0200
  Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> - 2015-09-28 16:20 +0200
    Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-09-28 20:30 +0200
      Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-10-01 09:20 +0200
      Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-10-01 11:10 +0200
        Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-10-01 11:20 +0200
          Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-10-01 19:50 +0200
            Re: rwx mapping between ex_table and rodata Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-10-02 09:20 +0200

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