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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [PATCH v2] Arm: avoid .init.data to be marked as executable
This confuses disassemblers, at the very least. Move
.altinstr_replacement to .init.text. The previously redundant ALIGN()
now gets converted to page alignment, such that the hypervisor mapping
won't have this as executable (it'll instead get mapped r/w, which I'm
told is intended to be adjusted at some point).
Note that for the actual patching logic's purposes this part of
.init.text _has_ to live after _einittext (or before _sinittext), or
else branch_insn_requires_update() would produce wrong results.
Also, to have .altinstr_replacement have consistent attributes in the
object files, add "x" to the one instance where it was missing.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
---
v2: Put past _einittext.
--- a/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ SECTIONS
_sinittext = .;
*(.init.text)
_einittext = .;
+ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); /* Avoid mapping alt insns executable */
+ *(.altinstr_replacement)
} :text
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
.init.data : {
@@ -169,8 +171,6 @@ SECTIONS
__alt_instructions = .;
*(.altinstructions)
__alt_instructions_end = .;
- . = ALIGN(4);
- *(.altinstr_replacement)
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_PROFILE
. = ALIGN(POINTER_ALIGN);
--- a/xen/include/asm-arm/alternative.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-arm/alternative.h
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ int apply_alternatives(const struct alt_
ALTINSTR_ENTRY(feature,cb) \
".popsection\n" \
" .if " __stringify(cb) " == 0\n" \
- ".pushsection .altinstr_replacement, \"a\"\n" \
+ ".pushsection .altinstr_replacement, \"ax\"\n" \
"663:\n\t" \
newinstr "\n" \
"664:\n\t" \
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