Commit 38f054d5 authored by Jessica Yu's avatar Jessica Yu

modules: always page-align module section allocations

Some arches (e.g., arm64, x86) have moved towards non-executable
module_alloc() allocations for security hardening reasons. That means
that the module loader will need to set the text section of a module to
executable, regardless of whether or not CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX is set.

When CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX=y, module section allocations are always
page-aligned to handle memory rwx permissions. On some arches with
CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX=n however, when setting the module text to
executable, the BUG_ON() in frob_text() gets triggered since module
section allocations are not page-aligned when CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX=n.
Since the set_memory_* API works with pages, and since we need to call
set_memory_x() regardless of whether CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX is set, we
might as well page-align all module section allocations for ease of
managing rwx permissions of module sections (text, rodata, etc).

Fixes: 2eef1399 ("modules: fix BUG when load module with rodata=n")
Reported-by: default avatarMartin Kaiser <lists@kaiser.cx>
Reported-by: default avatarBartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Tested-by: default avatarDavid Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMartin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
Tested-by: default avatarBartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
parent 5f9e832c
......@@ -64,14 +64,9 @@
/*
* Modules' sections will be aligned on page boundaries
* to ensure complete separation of code and data, but
* only when CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX=y
* to ensure complete separation of code and data
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
# define debug_align(X) ALIGN(X, PAGE_SIZE)
#else
# define debug_align(X) (X)
#endif
/* If this is set, the section belongs in the init part of the module */
#define INIT_OFFSET_MASK (1UL << (BITS_PER_LONG-1))
......
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