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From: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@gmail.com>,
	mark.rutland@arm.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
	keescook@chromium.org, pawel.moll@arm.com,
	ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	will.deacon@arm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, vladimir.murzin@arm.com,
	andy.gross@linaro.org, arjan@linux.intel.com, mingo@kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, jonathan.austin@arm.com
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] ARM: mm: add testcases for RODATA
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:38:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46bae2bb-4b4f-158b-6a8d-3737e181ad74@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170118223629.GQ27312@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>

On 01/18/2017 02:36 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:20:54AM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
>> On 01/18/2017 05:53 AM, Jinbum Park wrote:
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
>>> index bdd283b..741e2e8 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
>>> @@ -498,6 +498,16 @@ static inline void set_kernel_text_rw(void) { }
>>>  static inline void set_kernel_text_ro(void) { }
>>>  #endif
>>>  
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
>>> +extern const int rodata_test_data;
>>> +int rodata_test(void);
>>> +#else
>>> +static inline int rodata_test(void)
>>> +{
>>> +	return 0;
>>> +}
>>> +#endif
>>> +
> 
> I don't see why this needs to be in cacheflush.h - it doesn't seem to
> have anything to do with cache flushing, and placing it in here means
> that if you change the state of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA_TEST, most likely
> the entire kernel gets rebuilt.  Please put it in a separate header
> file.
> 

cacheflush.h seems to be where all the set_memory_* functions have
ended up. I was just looking at cleaning that up unless someone
beats me to it.

Thanks,
Laura

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-18 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-18 13:53 [PATCH] ARM: mm: add testcases for RODATA Jinbum Park
2017-01-18 14:38 ` Mark Rutland
2017-01-18 19:20 ` Laura Abbott
2017-01-18 21:20   ` Kees Cook
2017-01-18 22:36   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-01-18 23:35     ` Kees Cook
2017-01-18 23:38     ` Laura Abbott [this message]
2017-01-18 23:45       ` [kernel-hardening] " Russell King - ARM Linux

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