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[v3,18/29] arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment

Message ID 20191029211351.13243-19-keescook@chromium.org (mailing list archive)
State Mainlined
Commit 19f6bc32c6f4216e099963f416de91eba7ca1430
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Series vmlinux.lds.h: Refactor EXCEPTION_TABLE and NOTES | expand

Commit Message

Kees Cook Oct. 29, 2019, 9:13 p.m. UTC 
Since the EXCEPTION_TABLE is read-only, collapse it into RO_DATA. Also
removes the redundant ALIGN, which is already present at the end of the
RO_DATA macro.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index a4b3e6c0680c..9128a26eb45b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ 
  * Written by Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
  */
 
+#define RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN	8
+
 #include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
 #include <asm/cache.h>
 #include <asm/kernel-pgtable.h>
@@ -135,10 +137,9 @@  SECTIONS
 	. = ALIGN(SEGMENT_ALIGN);
 	_etext = .;			/* End of text section */
 
-	RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)		/* everything from this point to     */
-	EXCEPTION_TABLE(8)		/* __init_begin will be marked RO NX */
+	/* everything from this point to __init_begin will be marked RO NX */
+	RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
 
-	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	idmap_pg_dir = .;
 	. += IDMAP_DIR_SIZE;