This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: Improve detection of user/non-user mappings in set_pte(_at)
to the 4.9-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:
arm64-improve-detection-of-user-non-user-mappings-in-set_pte-_at.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ec663d967b2276448a416406ca59ff247c0c80c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:54:12 +0000
Subject: arm64: Improve detection of user/non-user mappings in set_pte(_at)
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
commit ec663d967b2276448a416406ca59ff247c0c80c5 upstream.
Commit cab15ce604e5 ("arm64: Introduce execute-only page access
permissions") allowed a valid user PTE to have the PTE_USER bit clear.
As a consequence, the pte_valid_not_user() macro in set_pte() was
replaced with pte_valid_global() under the assumption that only user
pages have the nG bit set. EFI mappings, however, also have the nG bit
set and set_pte() wrongly ignores issuing the DSB+ISB.
This patch reinstates the pte_valid_not_user() macro and adds the
PTE_UXN bit check since all kernel mappings have this bit set. For
clarity, pte_exec() is renamed to pte_user_exec() as it only checks for
the absence of PTE_UXN. Consequently, the user executable check in
set_pte_at() drops the pte_ng() test since pte_user_exec() is
sufficient.
Fixes: cab15ce604e5 ("arm64: Introduce execute-only page access permissions")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 15 +++++++++------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -71,9 +71,8 @@ extern unsigned long empty_zero_page[PAG
#define pte_young(pte) (!!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_AF))
#define pte_special(pte) (!!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_SPECIAL))
#define pte_write(pte) (!!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_WRITE))
-#define pte_exec(pte) (!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_UXN))
+#define pte_user_exec(pte) (!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_UXN))
#define pte_cont(pte) (!!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_CONT))
-#define pte_ng(pte) (!!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_NG))
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM
#define pte_hw_dirty(pte) (pte_write(pte) && !(pte_val(pte) & PTE_RDONLY))
@@ -84,8 +83,12 @@ extern unsigned long empty_zero_page[PAG
#define pte_dirty(pte) (pte_sw_dirty(pte) || pte_hw_dirty(pte))
#define pte_valid(pte) (!!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_VALID))
-#define pte_valid_global(pte) \
- ((pte_val(pte) & (PTE_VALID | PTE_NG)) == PTE_VALID)
+/*
+ * Execute-only user mappings do not have the PTE_USER bit set. All valid
+ * kernel mappings have the PTE_UXN bit set.
+ */
+#define pte_valid_not_user(pte) \
+ ((pte_val(pte) & (PTE_VALID | PTE_USER | PTE_UXN)) == (PTE_VALID | PTE_UXN))
#define pte_valid_young(pte) \
((pte_val(pte) & (PTE_VALID | PTE_AF)) == (PTE_VALID | PTE_AF))
@@ -178,7 +181,7 @@ static inline void set_pte(pte_t *ptep,
* Only if the new pte is valid and kernel, otherwise TLB maintenance
* or update_mmu_cache() have the necessary barriers.
*/
- if (pte_valid_global(pte)) {
+ if (pte_valid_not_user(pte)) {
dsb(ishst);
isb();
}
@@ -212,7 +215,7 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_
pte_val(pte) &= ~PTE_RDONLY;
else
pte_val(pte) |= PTE_RDONLY;
- if (pte_ng(pte) && pte_exec(pte) && !pte_special(pte))
+ if (pte_user_exec(pte) && !pte_special(pte))
__sync_icache_dcache(pte, addr);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/arm64-improve-detection-of-user-non-user-mappings-in-set_pte-_at.patch