powerpc/mm/radix: Only add X for pages overlapping kernel text
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Mon Jun 19 22:25:36 AEST 2017
On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 05:48:57 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 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
>
> 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>
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>
Applied to powerpc next.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/9abcc981de9775659a0f6e4a52a344
cheers
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