[PATCH] powerpc/mm/radix: Only add X for pages overlapping kernel text
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Jun 8 17:00:04 AEST 2017
Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> writes:
> Currently we map the whole linear mapping with PAGE_KERNEL_X. Instead we
> should check if the page overlaps the kernel text and only then add
> PAGE_KERNEL_X.
>
> Note that we still use 1G pages if they're available, so this will
> typically still result in a 1G executable page at KERNELBASE. So this fix is
> primarily useful for catching stray branches to high linear mapping addresses.
>
> Without this patch, we can execute at 1G in xmon using:
>
> 0:mon> m c000000040000000
> c000000040000000 00 l
> c000000040000000 00000000 01006038
> c000000040000004 00000000 2000804e
> c000000040000008 00000000 x
> 0:mon> di c000000040000000
> c000000040000000 38600001 li r3,1
> c000000040000004 4e800020 blr
> 0:mon> p c000000040000000
> return value is 0x1
>
> After we get a 400 as expected:
>
> 0:mon> p c000000040000000
> *** 400 exception occurred
>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Fixes: 2bfd65e45e87 ("powerpc/mm/radix: Add radix callbacks for early init routines")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v4.7+
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c | 14 +++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
> index c28165d8970b..6c062f92b9e4 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
> #include <asm/mmu.h>
> #include <asm/firmware.h>
> #include <asm/powernv.h>
> +#include <asm/sections.h>
>
> #include <trace/events/thp.h>
>
> @@ -121,7 +122,8 @@ static inline void __meminit print_mapping(unsigned long start,
> static int __meminit create_physical_mapping(unsigned long start,
> unsigned long end)
> {
> - unsigned long addr, mapping_size = 0;
> + unsigned long vaddr, addr, mapping_size = 0;
> + pgprot_t prot;
>
> start = _ALIGN_UP(start, PAGE_SIZE);
> for (addr = start; addr < end; addr += mapping_size) {
> @@ -145,8 +147,14 @@ static int __meminit create_physical_mapping(unsigned long start,
> start = addr;
> }
>
> - rc = radix__map_kernel_page((unsigned long)__va(addr), addr,
> - PAGE_KERNEL_X, mapping_size);
> + vaddr = (unsigned long)__va(addr);
> +
> + if (overlaps_kernel_text(vaddr, vaddr + mapping_size))
> + prot = PAGE_KERNEL_X;
> + else
> + prot = PAGE_KERNEL;
> +
> + rc = radix__map_kernel_page(vaddr, addr, prot, mapping_size);
> if (rc)
> return rc;
> }
> --
> 2.7.4
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