ARM: Fix XIP kernels
authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:51:19 +0000 (23:51 +0000)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:51:19 +0000 (23:51 +0000)
Commit 7619751f8c90 ("ARM: 8595/2: apply more __ro_after_init") caused
a regression with XIP kernels by moving the __ro_after_init data into
the read-only section.  With XIP kernels, the read-only section is
located in read-only memory from the very beginning.

Work around this by moving the __ro_after_init data back into the .data
section, which will be in RAM, and hence will be writable.

It should be noted that in doing so, this remains writable after init.

Fixes: 7619751f8c90 ("ARM: 8595/2: apply more __ro_after_init")
Reported-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com> [ XIP stm32 ]
Tested-by: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S

index 7fa487ef7e2f67fb3e1ac7fa8fd3edb58f2145fc..37b2a11af34592b5f60f0db77ce014588f9327f4 100644 (file)
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
  * Written by Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
  */
 
+/* No __ro_after_init data in the .rodata section - which will always be ro */
+#define RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA
+
 #include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
 #include <asm/cache.h>
 #include <asm/thread_info.h>
@@ -223,6 +226,8 @@ SECTIONS
                . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
                __init_end = .;
 
+               *(.data..ro_after_init)
+
                NOSAVE_DATA
                CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
                READ_MOSTLY_DATA(L1_CACHE_BYTES)