[PATCH 2/3] Detect instruction fetch denied and report

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Nov 9 03:09:04 AEDT 2016


Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com> writes:

> 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 d0b137d..835fd03 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> @@ -404,6 +404,10 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
>  		    (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_NOEXECUTE) ||
>  		     !(vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_WRITE))))
>  			goto bad_area;
> +
> +		if (radix_enabled() && (regs->msr & SRR1_ISI_N_OR_G))
> +			goto bad_area;

Why is this within radix_enabled() ? Hash can also generate an
interrupt with that SRR1 value right ?


> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU
>  		/*
>  		 * protfault should only happen due to us


-aneesh



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