On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 4:09 PM, David Brown <david.brown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From 2efef8aa0f8f7f6277ffebe4ea6744fc93d54644 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: David Brown <david.brown@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:58:44 -0800
>
> This removes the CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA option and makes it always
> enabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Brown <david.brown@xxxxxxxxxx>
I'm all for this!
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
-Kees
> ---
> v1: This is in the same spirit as the x86 patch, removing allowing
> this option to be config selected. The associated patch series adds a
> runtime option for the same thing. However, it does affect the way
> some things are mapped, and could possibly result in either increased
> memory usage, or a performance hit (due to TLB misses from 4K pages).
>
> I've tested this on a Hikey 96board (hi6220-hikey.dtb), both with and
> without 'rodata=off' on the command line.
>
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 3 +++
> arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug | 10 ----------
> arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c | 2 +-
> arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 +----
> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 12 ------------
> 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 8cc6228..ffa617a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ config KERNEL_MODE_NEON
> config FIX_EARLYCON_MEM
> def_bool y
>
> +config DEBUG_RODATA
> + def_bool y
> +
> config PGTABLE_LEVELS
> int
> default 2 if ARM64_16K_PAGES && ARM64_VA_BITS_36
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
> index e13c4bf..db994ec 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -48,16 +48,6 @@ config DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
> against certain classes of kernel exploits.
> If in doubt, say "N".
>
> -config DEBUG_RODATA
> - bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only"
> - help
> - If this is set, kernel text and rodata will be made read-only.
> This
> - is to help catch accidental or malicious attempts to change the
> - kernel's executable code. Additionally splits rodata from kernel
> - text so it can be made explicitly non-executable.
> -
> - If in doubt, say Y
> -
> config DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA
> depends on DEBUG_RODATA && ARM64_4K_PAGES
> bool "Align linker sections up to SECTION_SIZE"
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
> index 7371455..a04bdef 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
> @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static void __kprobes *patch_map(void *addr, int fixmap)
>
> if (module && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX))
> page = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
> - else if (!module && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA))
> + else if (!module)
> page = virt_to_page(addr);
> else
> return addr;
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index e3928f5..f80903c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -65,12 +65,9 @@ PECOFF_FILE_ALIGNMENT = 0x200;
> #if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA)
> #define ALIGN_DEBUG_RO . = ALIGN(1<<SECTION_SHIFT);
> #define ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN(min) ALIGN_DEBUG_RO
> -#elif defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA)
> +#else
> #define ALIGN_DEBUG_RO . = ALIGN(1<<PAGE_SHIFT);
> #define ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN(min) ALIGN_DEBUG_RO
> -#else
> -#define ALIGN_DEBUG_RO
> -#define ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN(min) . = ALIGN(min);
> #endif
>
> SECTIONS
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index 58faeaa..3b411b7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -313,7 +313,6 @@ static void create_mapping_late(phys_addr_t phys,
> unsigned long virt,
> phys, virt, size, prot, late_alloc);
> }
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
> static void __init __map_memblock(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
> {
> /*
> @@ -347,13 +346,6 @@ static void __init __map_memblock(phys_addr_t start,
> phys_addr_t end)
> }
>
> }
> -#else
> -static void __init __map_memblock(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
> -{
> - create_mapping(start, __phys_to_virt(start), end - start,
> - PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
> -}
> -#endif
>
> static void __init map_mem(void)
> {
> @@ -410,7 +402,6 @@ static void __init map_mem(void)
>
> static void __init fixup_executable(void)
> {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
> /* now that we are actually fully mapped, make the start/end more
> fine grained */
> if (!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)_stext, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE)) {
> unsigned long aligned_start = round_down(__pa(_stext),
> @@ -428,10 +419,8 @@ static void __init fixup_executable(void)
> aligned_end - __pa(__init_end),
> PAGE_KERNEL);
> }
> -#endif
> }
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
> void mark_rodata_ro(void)
> {
> create_mapping_late(__pa(_stext), (unsigned long)_stext,
> @@ -439,7 +428,6 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
> PAGE_KERNEL_ROX);
>
> }
> -#endif
>
> void fixup_init(void)
> {
> --
> 2.7.0
>
--
Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security
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