Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 7/8] x86/vsyscall: Add __ro_after_init to global variables | Date | Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:45:08 -0700 |
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The vDSO is only configurable by command-line options, so make its global variables __ro_after_init. This seems highly unlikely to ever stop an exploit, but I think it's nice anyway.
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> --- arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c index 9c58ab807aeb..07003f3f1bfc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS #include "vsyscall_trace.h" -static enum { EMULATE, XONLY, NONE } vsyscall_mode = +static enum { EMULATE, XONLY, NONE } vsyscall_mode __ro_after_init = #ifdef CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE NONE; #elif defined(CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_XONLY) @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static const char *gate_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma) static const struct vm_operations_struct gate_vma_ops = { .name = gate_vma_name, }; -static struct vm_area_struct gate_vma = { +static struct vm_area_struct gate_vma __ro_after_init = { .vm_start = VSYSCALL_ADDR, .vm_end = VSYSCALL_ADDR + PAGE_SIZE, .vm_page_prot = PAGE_READONLY_EXEC, -- 2.21.0
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