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In a previous patch, we increased the size of the EFI PE/COFF header to 64 KB, which resulted in the _stext symbol to appear at a fixed offset of 64 KB into the image. Since 64 KB is also the largest page size we support, this completely removes the need to map the first 64 KB of the kernel image, given that it only contains the arm64 Image header and the EFI header, neither of which we ever access again after booting the kernel. More importantly, we should avoid an executable mapping of non-executable and not entirely predictable data, to deal with the unlikely event that we inadvertently emitted something that looks like an opcode that could be used as a gadget for speculative execution. So let's limit the kernel mapping of .text to the [_stext, _etext) region, which matches the view of generic code (such as kallsyms) when it reasons about the boundaries of the kernel's .text section. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201117124729.12642-2-ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.