This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled RISC-V: Don't allow write+exec only page mapping request in mmap to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: risc-v-don-t-allow-write-exec-only-page-mapping-requ.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 678a8e622be22d0835521c360e4cebbcf8ee6f58 Author: Yash Shah <yash.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 16 19:33:06 2020 +0530 RISC-V: Don't allow write+exec only page mapping request in mmap [ Upstream commit e0d17c842c0f824fd4df9f4688709fc6907201e1 ] As per the table 4.4 of version "20190608-Priv-MSU-Ratified" of the RISC-V instruction set manual[0], the PTE permission bit combination of "write+exec only" is reserved for future use. Hence, don't allow such mapping request in mmap call. An issue is been reported by David Abdurachmanov, that while running stress-ng with "sysbadaddr" argument, RCU stalls are observed on RISC-V specific kernel. This issue arises when the stress-sysbadaddr request for pages with "write+exec only" permission bits and then passes the address obtain from this mmap call to various system call. For the riscv kernel, the mmap call should fail for this particular combination of permission bits since it's not valid. [0]: http://dabbelt.com/~palmer/keep/riscv-isa-manual/riscv-privileged-20190608-1.pdf Signed-off-by: Yash Shah <yash.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: David Abdurachmanov <david.abdurachmanov@xxxxxxxxx> [Palmer: Refer to the latest ISA specification at the only link I could find, and update the terminology.] Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c index f3619f59d85cc..12f8a7fce78b1 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ #include <linux/syscalls.h> #include <asm/unistd.h> #include <asm/cacheflush.h> +#include <asm-generic/mman-common.h> static long riscv_sys_mmap(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags, @@ -16,6 +17,11 @@ static long riscv_sys_mmap(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, { if (unlikely(offset & (~PAGE_MASK >> page_shift_offset))) return -EINVAL; + + if ((prot & PROT_WRITE) && (prot & PROT_EXEC)) + if (unlikely(!(prot & PROT_READ))) + return -EINVAL; + return ksys_mmap_pgoff(addr, len, prot, flags, fd, offset >> (PAGE_SHIFT - page_shift_offset)); }