From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:51:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 0/5] arm/arm64: KVM: Tighten memory protection flags In-Reply-To: <1465826449-14349-1-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com> References: <1465826449-14349-1-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com> Message-ID: <20160615145118.GP24029@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 03:00:44PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: > So far, the HYP mappings have been fairly relaxed: everything is > RWX. Oddly enough, not everybody is fond of this kind of permissions > at the highest exception level. > > This small series tightens it a bit by making: > - the text mapping read-only > - the rodata mapping read-only + no-exec > - everything else read-write + no-exec > > Of course, that's only valid when VHE is not in action. Tested on > Seattle and Cubietruck, based on 4.7-rc2. Looks good to me. For the series: Reviewed-by: Will Deacon Will