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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-12 15:26:48 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-12 15:26:48 -0800
commit26ceb127f7bcf473db926c6a026b18ddd6f274e8 (patch)
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm
Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "The major updates included in this update are:

   - Clang compatible stack pointer accesses by Behan Webster.
   - SA11x0 updates from Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov.
   - kgdb handling of breakpoints with read-only text/modules
   - Support for Privileged-no-execute feature on ARMv7 to prevent
     userspace code execution by the kernel.
   - AMBA primecell bus handling of irq-safe runtime PM
   - Unwinding support for memset/memzero/memmove/memcpy functions
   - VFP fixes for Krait CPUs and improvements in detecting the VFP
     architecture
   - A number of code cleanups (using pr_*, removing or reducing the
     severity of a couple of kernel messages, splitting ftrace asm code
     out to a separate file, etc.)
   - Add machine name to stack dump output"

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (62 commits)
  ARM: 8247/2: pcmcia: sa1100: make use of device clock
  ARM: 8246/2: pcmcia: sa1111: provide device clock
  ARM: 8245/1: pcmcia: soc-common: enable/disable socket clocks
  ARM: 8244/1: fbdev: sa1100fb: make use of device clock
  ARM: 8243/1: sa1100: add a clock alias for sa1111 pcmcia device
  ARM: 8242/1: sa1100: add cpu clock
  ARM: 8221/1: PJ4: allow building in Thumb-2 mode
  ARM: 8234/1: sa1100: reorder IRQ handling code
  ARM: 8233/1: sa1100: switch to hwirq usage
  ARM: 8232/1: sa1100: merge GPIO multiplexer IRQ to "normal" irq domain
  ARM: 8231/1: sa1100: introduce irqdomains support
  ARM: 8230/1: sa1100: shift IRQs by one
  ARM: 8229/1: sa1100: replace irq numbers with names in irq driver
  ARM: 8228/1: sa1100: drop entry-macro.S
  ARM: 8227/1: sa1100: switch to MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER
  ARM: 8241/1: Update processor_modes for hyp and monitor mode
  ARM: 8240/1: MCPM: document mcpm_sync_init()
  ARM: 8239/1: Introduce {set,clear}_pte_bit
  ARM: 8238/1: mm: Refine set_memory_* functions
  ARM: 8237/1: fix flush_pfn_alias
  ...
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diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index ab906b801047..03823e784f63 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -1009,3 +1009,24 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN
 	help
 	  This option specifies the architecture can support big endian
 	  operation.
+
+config ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
+	bool "Restrict kernel memory permissions"
+	help
+	  If this is set, kernel memory other than kernel text (and rodata)
+	  will be made non-executable. The tradeoff is that each region is
+	  padded to section-size (1MiB) boundaries (because their permissions
+	  are different and splitting the 1M pages into 4K ones causes TLB
+	  performance problems), wasting memory.
+
+config DEBUG_RODATA
+	bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only"
+	depends on ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
+	default y
+	help
+	  If this is set, kernel text and rodata will be made read-only. This
+	  is to help catch accidental or malicious attempts to change the
+	  kernel's executable code. Additionally splits rodata from kernel
+	  text so it can be made explicitly non-executable. This creates
+	  another section-size padded region, so it can waste more memory
+	  space while gaining the read-only protections.