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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2013-10-24 11:12:39 +0400
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2013-12-11 13:53:16 +0400
commitebd4922ecc38e31e662cd641dd04099a9652c9b3 (patch)
tree9bdeb148dca0324f7c16bf33feee00fe013dcd0f /arch/arm/include/asm/mach
parent2e2c9de207be043ee80161971c814d740759d3bc (diff)
downloadlinux-ebd4922ecc38e31e662cd641dd04099a9652c9b3.tar.xz
ARM: implement basic NX support for kernel lowmem mappings
Add basic NX support for kernel lowmem mappings. We mark any section which does not overlap kernel text as non-executable, preventing it from being used to write code and then execute directly from there. This does not change the alignment of the sections, so the kernel image doesn't grow significantly via this change, so we can do this without needing a config option. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/include/asm/mach')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/asm/mach/map.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/map.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/map.h
index 447be0744a85..f98c7f32c9c8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/map.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/map.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ enum {
MT_LOW_VECTORS,
MT_HIGH_VECTORS,
MT_MEMORY_RWX,
+ MT_MEMORY_RW,
MT_ROM,
MT_MEMORY_RWX_NONCACHED,
MT_MEMORY_RW_DTCM,