Arch maintainers: please send Acks (if you haven't already) for your respective linker script changes; the intention is for this series to land via -tip. See patch #1 for an extended rationale for the "note" vs "notes" naming. If "notes" is strongly desired, we can perform that change on top of this series. For now, I prefer to leave things as they were in v2. v3: Add new Acks, clarify "note" vs "notes" renaming v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191011000609.29728-1-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190926175602.33098-1-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx This series works to move the linker sections for NOTES and EXCEPTION_TABLE into the RO_DATA area, where they belong on most (all?) architectures. The problem being addressed was the discovery by Rick Edgecombe that the exception table was accidentally marked executable while he was developing his execute-only-memory series. When permissions were flipped from readable-and-executable to only-executable, the exception table became unreadable, causing things to explode rather badly. :) Roughly speaking, the steps are: - regularize the linker names for PT_NOTE and PT_LOAD program headers (to "note" and "text" respectively) - regularize restoration of linker section to program header assignment (when PT_NOTE exists) - move NOTES into RO_DATA - finish macro naming conversions for RO_DATA and RW_DATA - move EXCEPTION_TABLE into RO_DATA on architectures where this is clear - clean up some x86-specific reporting of kernel memory resources - switch x86 linker fill byte from x90 (NOP) to 0xcc (INT3), just because I finally realized what that trailing ": 0x9090" meant -- and we should trap, not slide, if execution lands in section padding Thanks! -Kees Kees Cook (29): powerpc: Rename "notes" PT_NOTE to "note" powerpc: Remove PT_NOTE workaround powerpc: Rename PT_LOAD identifier "kernel" to "text" alpha: Rename PT_LOAD identifier "kernel" to "text" ia64: Rename PT_LOAD identifier "code" to "text" s390: Move RO_DATA into "text" PT_LOAD Program Header x86: Restore "text" Program Header with dummy section vmlinux.lds.h: Provide EMIT_PT_NOTE to indicate export of .notes vmlinux.lds.h: Move Program Header restoration into NOTES macro vmlinux.lds.h: Move NOTES into RO_DATA vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RODATA with RO_DATA vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RO_DATA_SECTION with RO_DATA vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RW_DATA_SECTION with RW_DATA vmlinux.lds.h: Allow EXCEPTION_TABLE to live in RO_DATA x86: Actually use _etext for end of text segment x86: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment alpha: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment c6x: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment h8300: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment ia64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment microblaze: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment parisc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment powerpc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment xtensa: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment x86/mm: Remove redundant &s on addresses x86/mm: Report which part of kernel image is freed x86/mm: Report actual image regions in /proc/iomem x86: Use INT3 instead of NOP for linker fill bytes arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 18 +++++----- arch/arc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 6 ++-- arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S | 4 +-- arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 +-- arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 10 +++--- arch/c6x/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 8 ++--- arch/csky/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 ++- arch/h8300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 9 ++--- arch/hexagon/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 ++- arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 20 +++++------ arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-nommu.lds | 4 +-- arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds | 2 +- arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds | 2 +- arch/microblaze/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 8 ++--- arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 15 ++++---- arch/nds32/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 ++- arch/nios2/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 ++- arch/openrisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 7 ++-- arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 11 +++--- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 37 ++++--------------- arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 ++- arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 12 +++---- arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 +- arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 +- arch/um/include/asm/common.lds.S | 3 +- arch/unicore32/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 ++- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h | 1 - arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 12 ++++++- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 16 ++++----- arch/x86/mm/init.c | 8 ++--- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 16 +++++---- arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 2 +- arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 8 ++--- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++-------- 35 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1