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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Michael Kerrisk <michael.kerrisk@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Testing PROT_NONE and other protections, and a surprise
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:52:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040701135258.A5225@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040701032606.GA1564@mail.shareable.org>; from jamie@shareable.org on Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:26:06AM +0100

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:26:06AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> When running it on i386, I got a *huge* surprise (to me).  A
> PROT_WRITE-only page can sometimes fault on read or exec.  This is the
> output:
> 
> Requested PROT | ---    R--    -W-    RW-    --X    R-X    -WX    RWX
> ========================================================================
> MAP_SHARED     | ---    r-x    !w!    rwx    r-x    r-x    rwx    rwx
> MAP_PRIVATE    | ---    r-x    !w!    rwx    r-x    r-x    rwx    rwx
> 
> The "!" means that a read or exec *sometimes* raises a signal.

Here are the ARM results:

Requested PROT | ---    R--    -W-    RW-    --X    R-X    -WX    RWX
========================================================================
MAP_SHARED     | ---    r-x    !w!    rwx    r-x    r-x    rwx    rwx
MAP_PRIVATE    | ---    r-x    !w!    rwx    r-x    r-x    rwx    rwx

As expected, the same as x86 since we have the same situation there -
we can not represent the write-only page permission in hardware.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-01 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-30  2:44 A question about PROT_NONE on ARM and ARM26 Jamie Lokier
2004-06-30  3:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-01  3:26   ` Testing PROT_NONE and other protections, and a surprise Jamie Lokier
2004-07-01  3:35     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-01  4:01       ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-01  3:44     ` Kyle Moffett
2004-07-01  4:11       ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-01  4:59         ` Kyle Moffett
2004-07-01 12:39           ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-01 14:43             ` [OT] " Kyle Moffett
2004-07-01 14:50               ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-01 15:01                 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-07-01 16:37                   ` Matt Mackall
2004-07-01 17:26               ` Michael Driscoll
2004-07-02  7:37               ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-07-01 12:52     ` Russell King [this message]
2004-07-01 14:26     ` Richard Curnow
2004-06-30  8:16 ` A question about PROT_NONE on ARM and ARM26 Russell King
2004-06-30 14:59   ` Jamie Lokier
2004-06-30 15:22     ` Ian Molton
2004-06-30 18:26     ` Russell King
2004-06-30 19:14       ` Jamie Lokier
2004-06-30 19:23         ` Russell King
2004-06-30 20:15           ` Jamie Lokier
2004-06-30 22:59             ` Russell King
2004-06-30 23:30               ` Jamie Lokier
2004-06-30 23:48                 ` Ian Molton
2004-07-01  1:59                   ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-01  1:05                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2004-07-01  1:50                   ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-02 18:39                 ` Russell King
2004-07-01 15:27               ` Scott Wood
2004-07-01 23:53                 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-02 14:36                   ` Scott Wood

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