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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2016-02-17 23:41:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-02-22 08:51:38 +0100 |
| commit | 9ccaf77cf05915f51231d158abfd5448aedde758 (patch) | |
| tree | d6cd4476921b59c2e20773ea585792a867dc328b /arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel ... (diff) | |
| download | linux-9ccaf77cf05915f51231d158abfd5448aedde758.tar.xz linux-9ccaf77cf05915f51231d158abfd5448aedde758.zip | |
x86/mm: Always enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and remove the Kconfig option
This removes the CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA option and makes it always enabled.
This simplifies the code and also makes it clearer that read-only mapped
memory is just as fundamental a security feature in kernel-space as it is
in user-space.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 18 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index 9b18ed97a8a2..7816b7b276f4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -74,28 +74,16 @@ config EFI_PGT_DUMP issues with the mapping of the EFI runtime regions into that table. -config DEBUG_RODATA - bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures" - default y - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - ---help--- - Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables, - in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const - data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner. - If in doubt, say "Y". - config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST - bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature" - depends on DEBUG_RODATA + bool "Testcase for the marking rodata read-only" default y ---help--- - This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA - feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure. + This option enables a testcase for the setting rodata read-only + as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure. If in doubt, say "N" config DEBUG_WX bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot" - depends on DEBUG_RODATA select X86_PTDUMP_CORE ---help--- Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot. |