[PATCH 5.19 056/717] riscv: Allow PROT_WRITE-only mmap()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-10-22T07:40:28Z

From: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@rivosinc.com>

commit 9e2e6042a7ec6504fe8e366717afa2f40cf16488 upstream.

Commit 2139619bcad7 ("riscv: mmap with PROT_WRITE but no PROT_READ is
invalid") made mmap() return EINVAL if PROT_WRITE was set wihtout
PROT_READ with the justification that a write-only PTE is considered a
reserved PTE permission bit pattern in the privileged spec. This check
is unnecessary since we let VM_WRITE imply VM_READ on RISC-V, and it is
inconsistent with other architectures that don't support write-only PTEs,
creating a potential software portability issue. Just remove the check
altogether and let PROT_WRITE imply PROT_READ as is the case on other
architectures.

Note that this also allows PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC mappings which were
disallowed prior to the aforementioned commit; PROT_READ is implied in
such mappings as well.

Fixes: 2139619bcad7 ("riscv: mmap with PROT_WRITE but no PROT_READ is invalid")
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@rivosinc.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915193702.2201018-3-abrestic@rivosinc.com/
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c
@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@ static long riscv_sys_mmap(unsigned long
if (unlikely(offset & (~PAGE_MASK >> page_shift_offset)))
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));
}