arm64: mmu: map .text as read-only from the outset

Now that alternatives patching code no longer relies on the primary
mapping of .text being writable, we can remove the code that removes
the writable permissions post-init time, and map it read-only from
the outset.

To preserve the existing behavior under rodata=off, which is relied
upon by external debuggers to manage software breakpoints (as pointed
out by Mark), add an early_param() check for rodata=, and use RWX
permissions if it set to 'off'.

Reviewed-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index df377fbe464e..300e98e8cd63 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -416,9 +416,6 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
 {
 	unsigned long section_size;
 
-	section_size = (unsigned long)_etext - (unsigned long)_text;
-	update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(_text), (unsigned long)_text,
-			    section_size, PAGE_KERNEL_ROX);
 	/*
 	 * mark .rodata as read only. Use __init_begin rather than __end_rodata
 	 * to cover NOTES and EXCEPTION_TABLE.
@@ -451,6 +448,12 @@ static void __init map_kernel_segment(pgd_t *pgd, void *va_start, void *va_end,
 	vm_area_add_early(vma);
 }
 
+static int __init parse_rodata(char *arg)
+{
+	return strtobool(arg, &rodata_enabled);
+}
+early_param("rodata", parse_rodata);
+
 /*
  * Create fine-grained mappings for the kernel.
  */
@@ -458,7 +461,14 @@ static void __init map_kernel(pgd_t *pgd)
 {
 	static struct vm_struct vmlinux_text, vmlinux_rodata, vmlinux_init, vmlinux_data;
 
-	map_kernel_segment(pgd, _text, _etext, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, &vmlinux_text);
+	/*
+	 * External debuggers may need to write directly to the text
+	 * mapping to install SW breakpoints. Allow this (only) when
+	 * explicitly requested with rodata=off.
+	 */
+	pgprot_t text_prot = rodata_enabled ? PAGE_KERNEL_ROX : PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC;
+
+	map_kernel_segment(pgd, _text, _etext, text_prot, &vmlinux_text);
 	map_kernel_segment(pgd, __start_rodata, __init_begin, PAGE_KERNEL, &vmlinux_rodata);
 	map_kernel_segment(pgd, __init_begin, __init_end, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC,
 			   &vmlinux_init);