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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> |
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