x86/mm: Set NX on gap between __ex_table and rodata
authorStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:04:22 +0000 (09:04 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:37:49 +0000 (14:37 -0700)
commit4f9d53595caf9c801c8b4389bc0c64e9c16488f0
tree8a5c670add1ad21f30afbefabb4393188482b8f6
parentfb7eff9cfdffc4cb2f3d75024bda6c2a56ab12e6
x86/mm: Set NX on gap between __ex_table and rodata

commit ab76f7b4ab2397ffdd2f1eb07c55697d19991d10 upstream.

Unused space between the end of __ex_table and the start of
rodata can be left W+x in the kernel page tables.  Extend the
setting of the NX bit to cover this gap by starting from
text_end rather than rodata_start.

  Before:
  ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
  0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000          16M                               pmd
  0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81600000           6M     ro         PSE     GLB x  pmd
  0xffffffff81600000-0xffffffff81754000        1360K     ro                 GLB x  pte
  0xffffffff81754000-0xffffffff81800000         688K     RW                 GLB x  pte
  0xffffffff81800000-0xffffffff81a00000           2M     ro         PSE     GLB NX pmd
  0xffffffff81a00000-0xffffffff81b3b000        1260K     ro                 GLB NX pte
  0xffffffff81b3b000-0xffffffff82000000        4884K     RW                 GLB NX pte
  0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82200000           2M     RW         PSE     GLB NX pmd
  0xffffffff82200000-0xffffffffa0000000         478M                               pmd

  After:
  ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
  0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000          16M                               pmd
  0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81600000           6M     ro         PSE     GLB x  pmd
  0xffffffff81600000-0xffffffff81754000        1360K     ro                 GLB x  pte
  0xffffffff81754000-0xffffffff81800000         688K     RW                 GLB NX pte
  0xffffffff81800000-0xffffffff81a00000           2M     ro         PSE     GLB NX pmd
  0xffffffff81a00000-0xffffffff81b3b000        1260K     ro                 GLB NX pte
  0xffffffff81b3b000-0xffffffff82000000        4884K     RW                 GLB NX pte
  0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82200000           2M     RW         PSE     GLB NX pmd
  0xffffffff82200000-0xffffffffa0000000         478M                               pmd

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443704662-3138-1-git-send-email-sds@tycho.nsa.gov
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c