x86/mm: Always enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and remove the Kconfig option

This removes the CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA option and makes it always enabled.

This simplifies the code and also makes it clearer that read-only mapped
memory is just as fundamental a security feature in kernel-space as it is
in user-space.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.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/1455748879-21872-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Kees Cook
2016-02-17 14:41:14 -08:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent d2aa1acad2
commit 9ccaf77cf0
13 changed files with 25 additions and 61 deletions

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@@ -142,7 +142,6 @@ static int test_NX(void)
* by the error message
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
/* Test 3: Check if the .rodata section is executable */
if (rodata_test_data != 0xC3) {
printk(KERN_ERR "test_nx: .rodata marker has invalid value\n");
@@ -151,7 +150,6 @@ static int test_NX(void)
printk(KERN_ERR "test_nx: .rodata section is executable\n");
ret = -ENODEV;
}
#endif
#if 0
/* Test 4: Check if the .data section of a module is executable */