This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARM: 8722/1: mm: make STRICT_KERNEL_RWX effective for LPAE
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: arm-8722-1-mm-make-strict_kernel_rwx-effective-for-lpae.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 400eeffaffc7232c0ae1134fe04e14ae4fb48d8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Derrin philip@cog.systems Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:55:25 +0100 Subject: ARM: 8722/1: mm: make STRICT_KERNEL_RWX effective for LPAE
From: Philip Derrin philip@cog.systems
commit 400eeffaffc7232c0ae1134fe04e14ae4fb48d8c upstream.
Currently, for ARM kernels with CONFIG_ARM_LPAE and CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX enabled, the 2MiB pages mapping the kernel code and rodata are writable. They are marked read-only in a software bit (L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY) but the hardware read-only bit is not set (PMD_SECT_AP2).
For user mappings, the logic that propagates the software bit to the hardware bit is in set_pmd_at(); but for the kernel, section_update() writes the PMDs directly, skipping this logic.
The fix is to set PMD_SECT_AP2 for read-only sections in section_update(), at the same time as L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY.
Fixes: 1e3479225acb ("ARM: 8275/1: mm: fix PMD_SECT_RDONLY undeclared compile error") Signed-off-by: Philip Derrin philip@cog.systems Reported-by: Neil Dick neil@cog.systems Tested-by: Neil Dick neil@cog.systems Tested-by: Laura Abbott labbott@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/arm/mm/init.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c @@ -639,8 +639,8 @@ static struct section_perm ro_perms[] = .start = (unsigned long)_stext, .end = (unsigned long)__init_begin, #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE - .mask = ~L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY, - .prot = L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY, + .mask = ~(L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY | PMD_SECT_AP2), + .prot = L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY | PMD_SECT_AP2, #else .mask = ~(PMD_SECT_APX | PMD_SECT_AP_WRITE), .prot = PMD_SECT_APX | PMD_SECT_AP_WRITE,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from philip@cog.systems are
queue-4.14/arm-8722-1-mm-make-strict_kernel_rwx-effective-for-lpae.patch queue-4.14/arm-8721-1-mm-dump-check-hardware-ro-bit-for-lpae.patch