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[tip:x86/entry] x86/vsyscall: Add __ro_after_init to global variables

Message ID tip-441cedab2dfca18fe4983cbc795de04536ed421e@git.kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [tip:x86/entry] x86/vsyscall: Add __ro_after_init to global variables | expand

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tip-bot for Kobe Wu June 27, 2019, 10:17 p.m. UTC 
Commit-ID:  441cedab2dfca18fe4983cbc795de04536ed421e
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/441cedab2dfca18fe4983cbc795de04536ed421e
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
AuthorDate: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:45:08 -0700
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitDate: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:04:40 +0200

x86/vsyscall: Add __ro_after_init to global variables

The vDSO is only configurable by command-line options, so make its
global variables __ro_after_init.  This seems highly unlikely to
ever stop an exploit, but it's nicer anyway.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a386925835e49d319e70c4d7404b1f6c3c2e3702.1561610354.git.luto@kernel.org

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 arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
index 9c58ab807aeb..07003f3f1bfc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ 
 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include "vsyscall_trace.h"
 
-static enum { EMULATE, XONLY, NONE } vsyscall_mode =
+static enum { EMULATE, XONLY, NONE } vsyscall_mode __ro_after_init =
 #ifdef CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE
 	NONE;
 #elif defined(CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_XONLY)
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@  static const char *gate_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 static const struct vm_operations_struct gate_vma_ops = {
 	.name = gate_vma_name,
 };
-static struct vm_area_struct gate_vma = {
+static struct vm_area_struct gate_vma __ro_after_init = {
 	.vm_start	= VSYSCALL_ADDR,
 	.vm_end		= VSYSCALL_ADDR + PAGE_SIZE,
 	.vm_page_prot	= PAGE_READONLY_EXEC,