[PATCH v6] powerpc: Do not make the entire heap executable

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:54:12AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> > Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> writes:
> >
> >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> On 32-bit powerpc the ELF PLT sections of binaries (built with --bss-plt,
> >>> or with a toolchain which defaults to it) look like this:
> > ...
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk at redhat.com>
> >>> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> >>> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> >>> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> >>> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> >>> CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>> CC: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> >>> CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
> >>> CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> >>> CC: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>
> >>> CC: linux-mm at kvack.org
> >>> CC: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> >>> CC: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> >>> Changes since v5:
> >>> * made do_brk_flags() error out if any bits other than VM_EXEC are set.
> >>>   (Kees Cook: "With this, I'd be happy to Ack.")
> >>>   See https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/661595/
> >>
> >> Excellent, thanks for the v6! Should this go via the ppc tree or the -mm tree?
> >
> > -mm would be best, given the diffstat I think it's less likely to
> >  conflict if it goes via -mm.
> 
> Okay, excellent. Andrew, do you have this already in email? I think
> you weren't on the explicit CC from the v6...

FWIW (and ping),

Tested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com>

On ARM32 (kirkwood) and PPC32 (405)

For reference, here is the patchwork URL:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/677753/

Jason