This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drivers: hv: Turn off write permission on the hypercall page
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-next branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release
during the merge window.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 372b1e91343e657a7cc5e2e2bcecd5140ac28119 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 18:30:56 -0700
Subject: drivers: hv: Turn off write permission on the hypercall page
The hypercall page only needs to be executable but currently it is setup to
be writable as well. Fix the issue.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
index c224b7df4d21..db64baf0e500 100644
--- a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ void hyperv_init(void)
guest_id = generate_guest_id(0, LINUX_VERSION_CODE, 0);
wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_GUEST_OS_ID, guest_id);
- hypercall_pg = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
+ hypercall_pg = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_RX);
if (hypercall_pg == NULL) {
wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_GUEST_OS_ID, 0);
return;
--
2.11.1
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