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Message-ID: <CAGXu5jJNPbcyYt3=WyM0pceoGpaUc=Nti7aD76uvjmAKwHZ58w@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 15:15:36 -0700 From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Eddie Kovsky <ewk@...ovsky.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] provide check for ro_after_init memory sections On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 14:53:23 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote: > >> > Eddie Kovsky (2): >> > module: verify address is read-only >> > extable: verify address is read-only >> > >> > include/linux/kernel.h | 2 ++ >> > include/linux/module.h | 12 ++++++++++++ >> > kernel/extable.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> > kernel/module.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> > 4 files changed, 96 insertions(+) >> >> Andrew, do you have these in your mailbox (it went to lkml), or should >> I resend them directly to you? Since they depend on the >> __start_ro_after_init naming fixes in -mm, it seemed like it'd be best >> to carry these two patches there. If so, please consider them both: >> >> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> >> >> (And, from the thread on the module patch, Jessica has Acked that one too.) > > Well I grabbed them, but the patches don't actually do anything - they > add interfaces with no users. What's the plan here? I'd like to have a way for interfaces (especially the various *_register()) to be able to check that a structure is either const or __ro_after_init. My expectation is to add those and similar sanity-checks now that we can do so. -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security
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