mm/mmap.c: mark protection_map as __ro_after_init
authorDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Thu, 6 Jul 2017 22:36:47 +0000 (15:36 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 6 Jul 2017 23:24:31 +0000 (16:24 -0700)
The protection map is only modified by per-arch init code so it can be
protected from writes after the init code runs.

This change was extracted from PaX where it's part of KERNEXEC.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170510174441.26163-1-danielmicay@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mmap.c

index a5e3dcd75e79f40557cefc1bd5338d34eb4fa2f2..5a0ba9788cdda01fa759a85e1461f2f2aeeb642f 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static void unmap_region(struct mm_struct *mm,
  *                                                             w: (no) no
  *                                                             x: (yes) yes
  */
-pgprot_t protection_map[16] = {
+pgprot_t protection_map[16] __ro_after_init = {
        __P000, __P001, __P010, __P011, __P100, __P101, __P110, __P111,
        __S000, __S001, __S010, __S011, __S100, __S101, __S110, __S111
 };