From: <Conor.Dooley@microchip.com>
To: <coelacanthus@outlook.com>, <palmer@rivosinc.com>,
<paul.walmsley@sifive.com>, <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: <xc-tan@outlook.com>, <dramforever@live.com>, <c141028@gmail.com>,
<linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<guoren@kernel.org>, <yash.shah@sifive.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] riscv: don't allow write but not read page mapping request in mmap
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 06:25:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea438a37-1736-27bb-32d5-560fd434654c@microchip.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PH7PR14MB5594801243EB482C01963A2FCEAB9@PH7PR14MB5594.namprd14.prod.outlook.com>
On 13/06/2022 06:20, Celeste Liu wrote:
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> When xctan tries to run one of libaio's tests
> (https://pagure.io/libaio/blob/1b18bfafc6a2f7b9fa2c6be77a95afed8b7be448/f/harness/cases/5.t),
> it encounters a strange behavior: for the same PROT_WRITE only mapping,
> there was a discrepancy in whether it could be read before and after writing
> (readable before writing, unreadable after writing). After some investigation,
> I found that mmap allows write only mapping, an undefined behavior, on RISC-V.
>
> As mentioned in Table 4.5 in RISC-V spec Volume 2 Section 4.3 version
> "20211203 Privileged Architecture v1.12, Ratified"[1], the PTE permission
> bit combination of "write+!read" is "Reserved for future use.". Hence, don't
> allow such mapping request in mmap call. In the current code[2], write+exec
> only is marked as invalid, but write only is not marked as invalid.
>
> This patch refines that judgment.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-manual/releases/download/Priv-v1.12/riscv-privileged-20211203.pdf
> [2]: modified in commit e0d17c842c0f824fd4df9f4688709fc6907201e1
> (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e0d17c842c0f824fd4df9f4688709fc6907201e1)
>
> Reported-by: xctan <xc-tan@outlook.com>
> Co-developed-by: dram <dramforever@live.com>
> Signed-off-by: dram <dramforever@live.com>
Those don't look like "real" names?
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin
> Co-developed-by: Ruizhe Pan <c141028@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ruizhe Pan <c141028@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Celeste Liu <coelacanthus@outlook.com>
> Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
> Cc: Yash Shah <yash.shah@sifive.com>
> ---
> v2: This version adds a link to the referenced spec, and reference of the
> previous related modification.
>
> arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c
> index 9c0194f176fc..571556bb9261 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c
> @@ -18,9 +18,8 @@ static long riscv_sys_mmap(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
> if (unlikely(offset & (~PAGE_MASK >> page_shift_offset)))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> - if ((prot & PROT_WRITE) && (prot & PROT_EXEC))
> - if (unlikely(!(prot & PROT_READ)))
> - return -EINVAL;
> + if (unlikely((prot & PROT_WRITE) && !(prot & PROT_READ)))
> + return -EINVAL;
>
> return ksys_mmap_pgoff(addr, len, prot, flags, fd,
> offset >> (PAGE_SHIFT - page_shift_offset));
> --
> 2.36.1
>
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-13 5:20 [PATCH v2] riscv: don't allow write but not read page mapping request in mmap Celeste Liu
2022-06-13 5:44 ` Guo Ren
2022-06-13 7:06 ` Celeste Liu
2022-06-13 6:25 ` Conor.Dooley [this message]
2022-06-13 7:13 ` Coelacanthus
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