From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:35068 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750787AbdBKG6F (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Feb 2017 01:58:05 -0500 Subject: patch "drivers: hv: Turn off write permission on the hypercall page" added to char-misc-next To: kys@microsoft.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, keescook@chromium.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, stephen@networkplumber.org From: Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 07:56:29 +0100 Message-ID: <148679618937223@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drivers: hv: Turn off write permission on the hypercall page to my char-misc git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git in the char-misc-next branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >>From 372b1e91343e657a7cc5e2e2bcecd5140ac28119 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 18:30:56 -0700 Subject: drivers: hv: Turn off write permission on the hypercall page The hypercall page only needs to be executable but currently it is setup to be writable as well. Fix the issue. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: Acked-by: Kees Cook Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger Tested-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c index c224b7df4d21..db64baf0e500 100644 --- a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c +++ b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ void hyperv_init(void) guest_id = generate_guest_id(0, LINUX_VERSION_CODE, 0); wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_GUEST_OS_ID, guest_id); - hypercall_pg = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC); + hypercall_pg = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_RX); if (hypercall_pg == NULL) { wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_GUEST_OS_ID, 0); return; -- 2.11.1