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 3.18-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-3.18 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-3.18/x86-um-actually-mark-system-call-tables-readonly.patch queue-3.18/netlink-always-copy-on-mmap-tx.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html