From da141706aea52c1a9fbd28cb8d289b78819f5436 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laura Abbott Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:36:06 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: add better page protections to arm64 Add page protections for arm64 similar to those in arm. This is for security reasons to prevent certain classes of exploits. The current method: - Map all memory as either RWX or RW. We round to the nearest section to avoid creating page tables before everything is mapped - Once everything is mapped, if either end of the RWX section should not be X, we split the PMD and remap as necessary - When initmem is to be freed, we change the permissions back to RW (using stop machine if necessary to flush the TLB) - If CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is set, the read only sections are set read only. Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Tested-by: Kees Cook Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas --- Reading git-format-patch failed