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Re: [PATCH v2] tile: handle __ro_after_init like parisc does

From Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2] tile: handle __ro_after_init like parisc does
Date 2016-11-14 22:20 +0100
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> wrote:
> The tile architecture already marks RO_DATA as read-only in
> the kernel, so grouping RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA with RO_DATA, as is
> done by default, means the kernel faults in init when it tries
> to write to RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA.  For now, just arrange that
> __ro_after_init is handled like __write_once, i.e. __read_mostly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

At some point here, I want to collect all the arch maintainers and
discuss the options for correctly reflecting the three data
memory-protection needs we have:

- always read-only
- read-only after init
- read-only except during rare updates

(The latter one doesn't exist all yet...)

x86, arm, and arm64 use mark_rodata_ro() after init finishes, so they
don't technically implement "always read-only". parisc, tile, powerpc,
others have "always read-only", but disable read-only-after-init since
they don't use mark_rodata_ro(). I think s390 has recently implemented
both, but I have to double-check...

-Kees

> ---
>  arch/tile/include/asm/cache.h | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/tile/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/tile/include/asm/cache.h
> index 6160761d5f61..4810e48dbbbf 100644
> --- a/arch/tile/include/asm/cache.h
> +++ b/arch/tile/include/asm/cache.h
> @@ -61,4 +61,7 @@
>   */
>  #define __write_once __read_mostly
>
> +/* __ro_after_init is the generic name for the tile arch __write_once. */
> +#define __ro_after_init __read_mostly
> +
>  #endif /* _ASM_TILE_CACHE_H */
> --
> 2.7.2
>



-- 
Kees Cook
Nexus Security

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[PATCH v2] tile: handle __ro_after_init like parisc does Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> - 2016-11-14 21:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] tile: handle __ro_after_init like parisc does Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-11-14 22:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] tile: handle __ro_after_init like parisc does Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> - 2016-11-15 08:50 +0100

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