x86/vmlinux: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment

The exception table was needlessly marked executable. In preparation
for execute-only memory, move the table into the RO_DATA segment via
the new macro that can be used by any architectures that want to make
a similar consolidation.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@chromium.org>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Lendacky <Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-17-keescook@chromium.org

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index a1a758e..b06d6e1 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #define EMITS_PT_NOTE
+#define RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN       16
 
 #include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
 #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
@@ -145,8 +146,6 @@ SECTIONS
 #endif
        } :text = 0x9090
 
-       EXCEPTION_TABLE(16)
-
        /* End of text section, which should occupy whole number of pages */
        _etext = .;
        . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);