[tip: x86/build] arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment

[tip-bot2 for Kees Cook]

The following commit has been merged into the x86/build branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     19f6bc32c6f4216e099963f416de91eba7ca1430
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/19f6bc32c6f4216e099963f416de91eba7ca1430
Author:        Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
AuthorDate:    Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:13:40 -07:00
Committer:     Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
CommitterDate: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 18:02:35 +01:00

arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment

Since the EXCEPTION_TABLE is read-only, collapse it into RO_DATA. Also
removes the redundant ALIGN, which is already present at the end of the
RO_DATA macro.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-alpha at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev at linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64 at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390 at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr at monstr.eu>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc at google.com>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe at intel.com>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: x86-ml <x86 at kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato at users.sourceforge.jp>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-19-keescook@chromium.org
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index a4b3e6c..9128a26 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
  * Written by Martin Mares <mj at atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
  */
 
+#define RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN	8
+
 #include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
 #include <asm/cache.h>
 #include <asm/kernel-pgtable.h>
@@ -135,10 +137,9 @@ SECTIONS
 	. = ALIGN(SEGMENT_ALIGN);
 	_etext = .;			/* End of text section */
 
-	RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)		/* everything from this point to     */
-	EXCEPTION_TABLE(8)		/* __init_begin will be marked RO NX */
+	/* everything from this point to __init_begin will be marked RO NX */
+	RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
 
-	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	idmap_pg_dir = .;
 	. += IDMAP_DIR_SIZE;