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[3.16.y-ckt,stable] Patch "x86, um: actually mark system call tables readonly" has been added to staging queue

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Luis Henriques Feb. 2, 2015, 11:51 a.m. UTC 
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86, um: actually mark system call tables readonly

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt6.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From 4142cad7bff8cf8f3bef2a86c72879fe3d66911a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 13:11:10 +0100
Subject: x86, um: actually mark system call tables readonly

commit b485342bd79af363c77ef1a421c4a0aef2de9812 upstream.

Commit a074335a370e ("x86, um: Mark system call tables readonly") was
supposed to mark the sys_call_table in UML as RO by adding the const,
but it doesn't have the desired effect as it's nevertheless being placed
into the data section since __cacheline_aligned enforces sys_call_table
being placed into .data..cacheline_aligned instead. We need to use
the ____cacheline_aligned version instead to fix this issue.

Before:

$ nm -v arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_64.o | grep -1 "sys_call_table"
                 U sys_writev
0000000000000000 D sys_call_table
0000000000000000 D syscall_table_size

After:

$ nm -v arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_64.o | grep -1 "sys_call_table"
                 U sys_writev
0000000000000000 R sys_call_table
0000000000000000 D syscall_table_size

Fixes: a074335a370e ("x86, um: Mark system call tables readonly")
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_32.c | 2 +-
 arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_64.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_32.c b/arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_32.c
index 531d4269e2e3..bd16d6c370ec 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_32.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@  typedef asmlinkage void (*sys_call_ptr_t)(void);

 extern asmlinkage void sys_ni_syscall(void);

-const sys_call_ptr_t sys_call_table[] __cacheline_aligned = {
+const sys_call_ptr_t sys_call_table[] ____cacheline_aligned = {
 	/*
 	 * Smells like a compiler bug -- it doesn't work
 	 * when the & below is removed.
diff --git a/arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_64.c b/arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_64.c
index f2f0723070ca..95783087f0d3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/um/sys_call_table_64.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@  typedef void (*sys_call_ptr_t)(void);

 extern void sys_ni_syscall(void);

-const sys_call_ptr_t sys_call_table[] __cacheline_aligned = {
+const sys_call_ptr_t sys_call_table[] ____cacheline_aligned = {
 	/*
 	 * Smells like a compiler bug -- it doesn't work
 	 * when the & below is removed.