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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2016-02-17 14:41:13 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-02-22 08:51:37 +0100 |
| commit | d2aa1acad22f1bdd0cfa67b3861800e392254454 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f3b88086e364e87714dfcaeb66add3bbca81800 /init/main.c | |
| parent | e267d97b83d9cecc16c54825f9f3ac7f72dc1e1e (diff) | |
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mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel mappings
It may be useful to debug writes to the readonly sections of memory,
so provide a cmdline "rodata=off" to allow for this. This can be
expanded in the future to support "log" and "write" modes, but that
will need to be architecture-specific.
This also makes KDB software breakpoints more usable, as read-only
mappings can now be disabled on any kernel.
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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: 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/1455748879-21872-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/main.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index 58c9e374704b..928a3438f7ac 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -93,9 +93,6 @@ static int kernel_init(void *); extern void init_IRQ(void); extern void fork_init(void); extern void radix_tree_init(void); -#ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA -static inline void mark_rodata_ro(void) { } -#endif /* * Debug helper: via this flag we know that we are in 'early bootup code' @@ -929,6 +926,28 @@ static int try_to_run_init_process(const char *init_filename) static noinline void __init kernel_init_freeable(void); +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA +static bool rodata_enabled = true; +static int __init set_debug_rodata(char *str) +{ + return strtobool(str, &rodata_enabled); +} +__setup("rodata=", set_debug_rodata); + +static void mark_readonly(void) +{ + if (rodata_enabled) + mark_rodata_ro(); + else + pr_info("Kernel memory protection disabled.\n"); +} +#else +static inline void mark_readonly(void) +{ + pr_warn("This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.\n"); +} +#endif + static int __ref kernel_init(void *unused) { int ret; @@ -937,7 +956,7 @@ static int __ref kernel_init(void *unused) /* need to finish all async __init code before freeing the memory */ async_synchronize_full(); free_initmem(); - mark_rodata_ro(); + mark_readonly(); system_state = SYSTEM_RUNNING; numa_default_policy(); |