[PATCH 18/28] mm: enforce that vmap can't map pages executable

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu Apr 9 01:32:44 AEST 2020


On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 01:38:36PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > +static inline pgprot_t pgprot_nx(pgprot_t prot)
> > +{
> > +	return __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) | _PAGE_NX);
> > +}
> > +#define pgprot_nx pgprot_nx
> > +
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
> 
> I reckon for arm64 we can do similar in our <asm/pgtable.h>:
> 
> #define pgprot_nx(pgprot_t prot) \
> 	__pgprot_modify(prot, 0, PTE_PXN)
> 
> ... matching the style of our existing pgprot_*() modifier helpers.

I've added that for the next version with attribution to you.


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