linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH 1/4] vmlinux.lds.h: Use regular *RODATA and *RO_AFTER_INIT

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Message-ID: <YTHaEYQz0O+MzpkE@osiris>
Date:   Fri, 3 Sep 2021 10:17:21 +0200
From:   Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] vmlinux.lds.h: Use regular *RODATA and
 *RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA suffixes

On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 04:37:54PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Rename the various section macros that live in RODATA and
> RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA. Just being called "DATA" implies they are expected
> to be writable.
> 
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
> Cc: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> ---
>  arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S    |  2 +-
>  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 12 ++++++------
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

For the s390 bit:
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>