[PATCH v3 24/29] powerpc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Wed Oct 30 08:13:46 AEDT 2019


Since the EXCEPTION_TABLE is read-only, collapse it into RO_DATA.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 4e7cec088c8b..8834220036a5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 #define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS *(.bss.prominit)
 #define EMITS_PT_NOTE
+#define RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN	0
 
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
@@ -162,7 +163,6 @@ SECTIONS
 		__stop__btb_flush_fixup = .;
 	}
 #endif
-	EXCEPTION_TABLE(0)
 
 /*
  * Init sections discarded at runtime
-- 
2.17.1



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