arm64: alternatives: apply boot time fixups via the linear mapping
authorArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Thu, 9 Mar 2017 20:52:01 +0000 (21:52 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:54:19 +0000 (13:54 +0000)
commit5ea5306c3235a157f06040c59730b1133115ed26
tree5bc46cf0c5ff286e1a0c8c02ef3f5da9a27efda7
parentaa8c09be7a6f58e1b0dd19413d872fffdb054677
arm64: alternatives: apply boot time fixups via the linear mapping

One important rule of thumb when desiging a secure software system is
that memory should never be writable and executable at the same time.
We mostly adhere to this rule in the kernel, except at boot time, when
regions may be mapped RWX until after we are done applying alternatives
or making other one-off changes.

For the alternative patching, we can improve the situation by applying
the fixups via the linear mapping, which is never mapped with executable
permissions. So map the linear alias of .text with RW- permissions
initially, and remove the write permissions as soon as alternative
patching has completed.

Reviewed-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h
arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c
arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c