Let's also remove masking off MAP_EXECUTABLE from ksys_mmap_pgoff(): the last in-tree occurrence of MAP_EXECUTABLE is now in LEGACY_MAP_MASK, which accepts the flag e.g., for MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE; however, the flag is ignored throughout the kernel now. Add a comment to LEGACY_MAP_MASK stating that MAP_EXECUTABLE is ignored. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mman.h | 2 ++ mm/mmap.c | 2 +- mm/nommu.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mman.h b/include/linux/mman.h index 629cefc4ecba..ebb09a964272 100644 --- a/include/linux/mman.h +++ b/include/linux/mman.h @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ /* * The historical set of flags that all mmap implementations implicitly * support when a ->mmap_validate() op is not provided in file_operations. + * + * MAP_EXECUTABLE is completely ignored throughout the kernel. */ #define LEGACY_MAP_MASK (MAP_SHARED \ | MAP_PRIVATE \ diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 3f287599a7a3..882f8ee4af1f 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1627,7 +1627,7 @@ unsigned long ksys_mmap_pgoff(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, return PTR_ERR(file); } - flags &= ~(MAP_EXECUTABLE | MAP_DENYWRITE); + flags &= ~MAP_DENYWRITE; retval = vm_mmap_pgoff(file, addr, len, prot, flags, pgoff); out_fput: diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c index 5c9ab799c0e6..1fafe3e9d3df 100644 --- a/mm/nommu.c +++ b/mm/nommu.c @@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ unsigned long ksys_mmap_pgoff(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, goto out; } - flags &= ~(MAP_EXECUTABLE | MAP_DENYWRITE); + flags &= ~MAP_DENYWRITE; retval = vm_mmap_pgoff(file, addr, len, prot, flags, pgoff); -- 2.30.2