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Commit e2a073dd authored by Ard Biesheuvel's avatar Ard Biesheuvel Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: omit [_text, _stext) from permanent kernel mapping



In a previous patch, we increased the size of the EFI PE/COFF header
to 64 KB, which resulted in the _stext symbol to appear at a fixed
offset of 64 KB into the image.

Since 64 KB is also the largest page size we support, this completely
removes the need to map the first 64 KB of the kernel image, given that
it only contains the arm64 Image header and the EFI header, neither of
which we ever access again after booting the kernel. More importantly,
we should avoid an executable mapping of non-executable and not entirely
predictable data, to deal with the unlikely event that we inadvertently
emitted something that looks like an opcode that could be used as a
gadget for speculative execution.

So let's limit the kernel mapping of .text to the [_stext, _etext)
region, which matches the view of generic code (such as kallsyms) when
it reasons about the boundaries of the kernel's .text section.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201117124729.12642-2-ardb@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent f8394f23
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