[PATCH v3 18/29] arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
Kees Cook
keescook at chromium.org
Wed Oct 30 08:13:40 AEDT 2019
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>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.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 a4b3e6c0680c..9128a26eb45b 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;
--
2.17.1
More information about the Linuxppc-dev
mailing list