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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 15:23:19 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.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, 7 Apr 2017 15:15:36 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> 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.
OK. But I'd rather sit on the patches until we have working, tested,
reviewed callers which are agreed to be useful.
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