[PATCH 2/2] Detect instruction fetch denied and report

Balbir Singh bsingharora at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 11:56:57 AEST 2016


ISA 3 allows for prevention of instruction fetch and execution
of user mode pages. If such an error occurs, SRR1 bit 35
reports the error. We catch and report the error in do_page_fault()

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index a4db22f..f162e77 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -404,6 +404,10 @@ good_area:
 		    (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_NOEXECUTE) ||
 		     !(vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_WRITE))))
 			goto bad_area;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_RADIX_MMU
+		if (radix_enabled() && regs->msr & PPC_BIT(35))
+			goto bad_area;
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU
 		/*
 		 * protfault should only happen due to us
-- 
2.5.5



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