* [PATCH 1/2] ARM: mm: make STRICT_KERNEL_RWX effective for LPAE
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@ 2017-11-09 0:41 ` Philip Derrin
2017-11-09 0:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: mm: dump: check hardware RO bit " Philip Derrin
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From: Philip Derrin @ 2017-11-09 0:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-arm-kernel
Cc: Philip Derrin, Kees Cook, Laura Abbott, Will Deacon, Daniel Potts,
Neil Dick, Carl van Schaik, stable
Currently, for ARM kernels with CONFIG_ARM_LPAE and
CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX enabled, the 2MiB pages mapping the
kernel code and rodata are writable. They are marked read-only in
a software bit (L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY) but the hardware read-only bit
is not set (PMD_SECT_AP2).
For user mappings, the logic that propagates the software bit
to the hardware bit is in set_pmd_at(); but for the kernel,
section_update() writes the PMDs directly, skipping this logic.
The fix is to set PMD_SECT_AP2 for read-only sections in
section_update(), at the same time as L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY.
Fixes: 1e3479225acb ("ARM: 8275/1: mm: fix PMD_SECT_RDONLY undeclared compile error")
Signed-off-by: Philip Derrin <philip@cog.systems>
Reported-by: Neil Dick <neil@cog.systems>
Tested-by: Neil Dick <neil@cog.systems>
Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
arch/arm/mm/init.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
index ad80548325fe..0f6d1537f330 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
@@ -639,8 +639,8 @@ static struct section_perm ro_perms[] = {
.start = (unsigned long)_stext,
.end = (unsigned long)__init_begin,
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
- .mask = ~L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY,
- .prot = L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY,
+ .mask = ~(L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY | PMD_SECT_AP2),
+ .prot = L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY | PMD_SECT_AP2,
#else
.mask = ~(PMD_SECT_APX | PMD_SECT_AP_WRITE),
.prot = PMD_SECT_APX | PMD_SECT_AP_WRITE,
--
2.15.0
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2017-11-09 0:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: mm: make STRICT_KERNEL_RWX effective for LPAE Philip Derrin
@ 2017-11-09 0:41 ` Philip Derrin
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From: Philip Derrin @ 2017-11-09 0:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-arm-kernel
Cc: Philip Derrin, Kees Cook, Laura Abbott, Will Deacon, Daniel Potts,
Neil Dick, Carl van Schaik, stable
When CONFIG_ARM_LPAE is set, the PMD dump relies on the software
read-only bit to determine whether a page is writable. This
concealed a bug which left the kernel text section writable
(AP2=0) while marked read-only in the software bit.
In a kernel with the AP2 bug, the dump looks like this:
---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
0xc0000000-0xc0200000 2M RW NX SHD
0xc0200000-0xc0600000 4M ro x SHD
0xc0600000-0xc0800000 2M ro NX SHD
0xc0800000-0xc4800000 64M RW NX SHD
The fix is to check that the software and hardware bits are both
set before displaying "ro". The dump then shows the true perms:
---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
0xc0000000-0xc0200000 2M RW NX SHD
0xc0200000-0xc0600000 4M RW x SHD
0xc0600000-0xc0800000 2M RW NX SHD
0xc0800000-0xc4800000 64M RW NX SHD
Fixes: ded947798469 ("ARM: 8109/1: mm: Modify pte_write and pmd_write logic for LPAE")
Signed-off-by: Philip Derrin <philip@cog.systems>
Tested-by: Neil Dick <neil@cog.systems>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
arch/arm/mm/dump.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dump.c b/arch/arm/mm/dump.c
index 35ff45470dbf..fc3b44028cfb 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dump.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dump.c
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ static const struct prot_bits section_bits[] = {
.val = PMD_SECT_USER,
.set = "USR",
}, {
- .mask = L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY,
- .val = L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY,
+ .mask = L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY | PMD_SECT_AP2,
+ .val = L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY | PMD_SECT_AP2,
.set = "ro",
.clear = "RW",
#elif __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
--
2.15.0
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