This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86, um: actually mark system call tables readonly
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-um-actually-mark-system-call-tables-readonly.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b485342bd79af363c77ef1a421c4a0aef2de9812 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 13:11:10 +0100
Subject: x86, um: actually mark system call tables readonly
From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit b485342bd79af363c77ef1a421c4a0aef2de9812 upstream.
Commit a074335a370e ("x86, um: Mark system call tables readonly") was
supposed to mark the sys_call_table in UML as RO by adding the const,
but it doesn't have the desired effect as it's nevertheless being placed
into the data section since __cacheline_aligned enforces sys_call_table
being placed into .data..cacheline_aligned instead. We need to use
the ____cacheline_aligned version instead to fix this issue.
Before:
$ nm -v arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_64.o | grep -1 "sys_call_table"
U sys_writev
0000000000000000 D sys_call_table
0000000000000000 D syscall_table_size
After:
$ nm -v arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_64.o | grep -1 "sys_call_table"
U sys_writev
0000000000000000 R sys_call_table
0000000000000000 D syscall_table_size
Fixes: a074335a370e ("x86, um: Mark system call tables readonly")
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_32.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_64.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_32.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ typedef asmlinkage void (*sys_call_ptr_t
extern asmlinkage void sys_ni_syscall(void);
-const sys_call_ptr_t sys_call_table[] __cacheline_aligned = {
+const sys_call_ptr_t sys_call_table[] ____cacheline_aligned = {
/*
* Smells like a compiler bug -- it doesn't work
* when the & below is removed.
--- a/arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_64.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ typedef void (*sys_call_ptr_t)(void);
extern void sys_ni_syscall(void);
-const sys_call_ptr_t sys_call_table[] __cacheline_aligned = {
+const sys_call_ptr_t sys_call_table[] ____cacheline_aligned = {
/*
* Smells like a compiler bug -- it doesn't work
* when the & below is removed.
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/x86-um-actually-mark-system-call-tables-readonly.patch
queue-3.10/netlink-always-copy-on-mmap-tx.patch
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