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[for-3.18,01/24] arm64: make sys_call_table const

Message ID 1494340968-17152-2-git-send-email-amit.pundir@linaro.org
State New
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Series Security fixes from 2015 and 2016 android security bulletins | expand

Commit Message

Amit Pundir May 9, 2017, 2:42 p.m. UTC 
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>


commit c623b33b4e9599c6ac5076f7db7369eb9869aa04 upstream.

As with x86, mark the sys_call_table const such that it will be placed
in the .rodata section. This will cause attempts to modify the table
(accidental or deliberate) to fail when strict page permissions are in
place. In the absence of strict page permissions, there should be no
functional change.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>

---
 arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c
index 3fa98ff14f0e..df20b7918854 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@  asmlinkage long sys_mmap(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
  * The sys_call_table array must be 4K aligned to be accessible from
  * kernel/entry.S.
  */
-void *sys_call_table[__NR_syscalls] __aligned(4096) = {
+void * const sys_call_table[__NR_syscalls] __aligned(4096) = {
 	[0 ... __NR_syscalls - 1] = sys_ni_syscall,
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
 };