Ard Biesheuvel
e872267b8b
The __jump_table sections emitted into the core kernel and into each module consist of statically initialized references into other parts of the code, and with the exception of entries that point into init code, which are defused at post-init time, these data structures are never modified. So let's move them into the ro_after_init section, to prevent them from being corrupted inadvertently by buggy code, or deliberately by an attacker. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180919065144.25010-9-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Linux kernel
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.