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 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- arch/arm/mm/init.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c index ad80548325fe..0f6d1537f330 100644 --- 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,