The patch titled Subject: mm: don't allow executable ioremap mappings has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-dont-allow-executable-ioremap-mappings.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-dont-allow-executable-ioremap-mappings.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-dont-allow-executable-ioremap-mappings.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Subject: mm: don't allow executable ioremap mappings There is no need to execute from iomem (and most platforms it is impossible anyway), so add the pgprot_nx() call similar to vmap. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210824091259.1324527-3-hch@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-dont-allow-executable-ioremap-mappings +++ a/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ int ioremap_page_range(unsigned long add { int err; - err = vmap_range_noflush(addr, end, phys_addr, prot, + err = vmap_range_noflush(addr, end, phys_addr, pgprot_nx(prot), ioremap_max_page_shift); flush_cache_vmap(addr, end); return err; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@xxxxxx are mmc-jz4740-remove-the-flush_kernel_dcache_page-call-in-jz4740_mmc_read_data.patch mmc-mmc_spi-replace-flush_kernel_dcache_page-with-flush_dcache_page.patch scatterlist-replace-flush_kernel_dcache_page-with-flush_dcache_page.patch mm-remove-flush_kernel_dcache_page.patch mm-move-ioremap_page_range-to-vmallocc.patch mm-dont-allow-executable-ioremap-mappings.patch proc-stop-using-seq_get_buf-in-proc_task_name.patch kernel-unexport-get_mmtask_exe_file.patch mm-unexport-folio_memcg_unlock.patch mm-unexport-unlock_page_memcg.patch