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x86/pti: Reduce amount of kernel text allowed to be Global commit abb67605203687c8b7943d760638d0301787f8d9 Kees reported to me that I made too much of the kernel image global. It was far more than just text: I think this is too much set global: _end is after data, bss, and brk, and all kinds of other stuff that could hold secrets. I think this should match what mark_rodata_ro() is doing. This does exactly that. We use __end_rodata_hpage_align as our marker both because it is huge-page-aligned and it does not contain any sections we expect to hold secrets. Kees's logic was that r/o data is in the kernel image anyway and, in the case of traditional distributions, can be freely downloaded from the web, so there's no reason to hide it. Fixes: 8c06c7740 (x86/pti: Leave kernel text global for !PCID) Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180420222023.1C8B2B20@viggo.jf.intel.com