mprotect(EXEC) was failing for stack mappings as default vm flags was missing MAYEXEC. This was triggered by glibc test suite nptl/tst-execstack testcase What is surprising is that despite running LTP for years on, we didn't catch this issue as it lacks a directed test case. gcc dejagnu tests with nested functions also requiring exec stack work fine though because they rely on the GNU_STACK segment spit out by compiler and handled in kernel elf loader. This glibc case is different as the stack is non exec to begin with and a dlopen of shared lib with GNU_STACK segment triggers the exec stack proceedings using a mprotect(PROT_EXEC) which was broken. CC: stable at vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com> --- arch/arc/include/asm/page.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/page.h index 109baa06831c..09ddddf71cc5 100644 --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/page.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/page.h @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ typedef pte_t * pgtable_t; #define virt_addr_valid(kaddr) pfn_valid(virt_to_pfn(kaddr)) /* Default Permissions for stack/heaps pages (Non Executable) */ -#define VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS (VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE) +#define VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS (VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC) #define WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL 1 -- 2.7.4
