On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 07:26:31PM -0800, Jordan Hand wrote: > if (!page || (~page->vm_max_prot_bits & vm_prot_bits)) > return -EACCESS > > This means that for any process where READ_IMPLIES_EXECUTE is set and > page where (vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYEXEC) == true, mmap/mprotect calls to > that request PROT_READ on a page that was not added with PROT_EXEC will > fail. Right. You would end up requesting RX from a R region. And you are suggesting that we tweak it along the lines of to make RIE processes work: unsigned long max_prot_bits = page->vm_max_prot_bits; if (!!(current->personality & READ_IMPLIES_EXEC) && vma->vm_flags & VM_MAY_EXEC) max_prot_bits |= VM_EXEC; /* ... */ if (!page || (~max_prot_bits & vm_prot_bits)) return -EACCESS ? /Jarkko