• Heiko Carstens's avatar
    s390: Keep inittext section writable · 33bd8d15
    Heiko Carstens authored
    There is no added security by making the inittext section non-writable,
    however it does split part of the kernel mapping into 4K mappings
    instead of 1M mappings:
    
    ---[ Kernel Image Start ]---
    0x000003ffe0000000-0x000003ffe0e00000        14M PMD RO X
    0x000003ffe0e00000-0x000003ffe0ec7000       796K PTE RO X
    0x000003ffe0ec7000-0x000003ffe0f00000       228K PTE RO NX
    0x000003ffe0f00000-0x000003ffe1300000         4M PMD RO NX
    0x000003ffe1300000-0x000003ffe1353000       332K PTE RO NX
    0x000003ffe1353000-0x000003ffe1400000       692K PTE RW NX
    0x000003ffe1400000-0x000003ffe1500000         1M PMD RW NX
    0x000003ffe1500000-0x000003ffe1700000         2M PTE RW NX <---
    0x000003ffe1700000-0x000003ffe1800000         1M PMD RW NX
    0x000003ffe1800000-0x000003ffe187e000       504K PTE RW NX
    ---[ Kernel Image End ]---
    
    Keep the inittext writable and enable instruction execution protection
    (aka noexec) later to prevent this. This also allows to use the
    generic free_initmem() implementation.
    
    ---[ Kernel Image Start ]---
    0x000003ffe0000000-0x000003ffe0e00000        14M PMD RO X
    0x000003ffe0e00000-0x000003ffe0ec7000       796K PTE RO X
    0x000003ffe0ec7000-0x000003ffe0f00000       228K PTE RO NX
    0x000003ffe0f00000-0x000003ffe1300000         4M PMD RO NX
    0x000003ffe1300000-0x000003ffe1353000       332K PTE RO NX
    0x000003ffe1353000-0x000003ffe1400000       692K PTE RW NX
    0x000003ffe1400000-0x000003ffe1800000         4M PMD RW NX <---
    0x000003ffe1800000-0x000003ffe187e000       504K PTE RW NX
    ---[ Kernel Image End ]---
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAlexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
    33bd8d15
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