netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] riscv: Constify sys_call_table

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Date:   Fri, 2 Apr 2021 09:41:00 +0530
From:   Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>
To:     Jisheng Zhang <jszhang3@...l.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
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        Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>,
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        Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] riscv: Constify sys_call_table

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:01 PM Jisheng Zhang
<jszhang3@...l.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
>
> From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>
>
> Constify the sys_call_table so that it will be placed in the .rodata
> section. This will cause attempts to modify the table to fail when
> strict page permissions are in place.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>

Regards,
Anup

> ---
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h  | 2 +-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h
> index 49350c8bd7b0..b933b1583c9f 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
>  #include <linux/err.h>
>
>  /* The array of function pointers for syscalls. */
> -extern void *sys_call_table[];
> +extern void * const sys_call_table[];
>
>  /*
>   * Only the low 32 bits of orig_r0 are meaningful, so we return int.
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c
> index f1ead9df96ca..a63c667c27b3 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
>  #undef __SYSCALL
>  #define __SYSCALL(nr, call)    [nr] = (call),
>
> -void *sys_call_table[__NR_syscalls] = {
> +void * const sys_call_table[__NR_syscalls] = {
>         [0 ... __NR_syscalls - 1] = sys_ni_syscall,
>  #include <asm/unistd.h>
>  };
> --
> 2.31.0
>
>
>
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