[PATCH 1/1] arm64: Revert support for execute-only user mappings

Tyler Hicks tyhicks at canonical.com
Wed Jan 8 17:21:48 UTC 2020


From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1858815

The ARMv8 64-bit architecture supports execute-only user permissions by
clearing the PTE_USER and PTE_UXN bits, practically making it a mostly
privileged mapping but from which user running at EL0 can still execute.

The downside, however, is that the kernel at EL1 inadvertently reading
such mapping would not trip over the PAN (privileged access never)
protection.

Revert the relevant bits from commit cab15ce604e5 ("arm64: Introduce
execute-only page access permissions") so that PROT_EXEC implies
PROT_READ (and therefore PTE_USER) until the architecture gains proper
support for execute-only user mappings.

Fixes: cab15ce604e5 ("arm64: Introduce execute-only page access permissions")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 4.9.x-
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>

(backported from commit 24cecc37746393432d994c0dbc251fb9ac7c5d72)
[tyhicks: Backport to 4.15:
 - Context adjustments to account for local variable differences in
   do_page_fault()]
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h |  5 ++---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h      | 10 +++-------
 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c                 |  2 +-
 mm/mmap.c                             |  6 ------
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
index 20e45733afa4..26efe251f076 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
@@ -76,13 +76,12 @@
 #define PAGE_SHARED_EXEC	__pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_WRITE)
 #define PAGE_READONLY		__pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)
 #define PAGE_READONLY_EXEC	__pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN)
-#define PAGE_EXECONLY		__pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN)
 
 #define __P000  PAGE_NONE
 #define __P001  PAGE_READONLY
 #define __P010  PAGE_READONLY
 #define __P011  PAGE_READONLY
-#define __P100  PAGE_EXECONLY
+#define __P100  PAGE_READONLY_EXEC
 #define __P101  PAGE_READONLY_EXEC
 #define __P110  PAGE_READONLY_EXEC
 #define __P111  PAGE_READONLY_EXEC
@@ -91,7 +90,7 @@
 #define __S001  PAGE_READONLY
 #define __S010  PAGE_SHARED
 #define __S011  PAGE_SHARED
-#define __S100  PAGE_EXECONLY
+#define __S100  PAGE_READONLY_EXEC
 #define __S101  PAGE_READONLY_EXEC
 #define __S110  PAGE_SHARED_EXEC
 #define __S111  PAGE_SHARED_EXEC
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 81a12054a9b4..8558d7657a6a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -92,12 +92,8 @@ extern unsigned long empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long)];
 #define pte_dirty(pte)		(pte_sw_dirty(pte) || pte_hw_dirty(pte))
 
 #define pte_valid(pte)		(!!(pte_val(pte) & 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))
+	((pte_val(pte) & (PTE_VALID | PTE_USER)) == PTE_VALID)
 #define pte_valid_young(pte) \
 	((pte_val(pte) & (PTE_VALID | PTE_AF)) == (PTE_VALID | PTE_AF))
 #define pte_valid_user(pte) \
@@ -113,8 +109,8 @@ extern unsigned long empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long)];
 
 /*
  * p??_access_permitted() is true for valid user mappings (subject to the
- * write permission check) other than user execute-only which do not have the
- * PTE_USER bit set. PROT_NONE mappings do not have the PTE_VALID bit set.
+ * write permission check). PROT_NONE mappings do not have the PTE_VALID bit
+ * set.
  */
 #define pte_access_permitted(pte, write) \
 	(pte_valid_user(pte) && (!(write) || pte_write(pte)))
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index b9f9c0d5f5b9..8c0d1c08f5f5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ static int __kprobes do_page_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr,
 	struct task_struct *tsk;
 	struct mm_struct *mm;
 	int fault, sig, code, major = 0;
-	unsigned long vm_flags = VM_READ | VM_WRITE;
+	unsigned long vm_flags = VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_EXEC;
 	unsigned int mm_flags = FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE;
 
 	if (notify_page_fault(regs, esr))
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 4160f5fdce24..19e3ae3025d7 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -89,12 +89,6 @@ static void unmap_region(struct mm_struct *mm,
  * MAP_PRIVATE	r: (no) no	r: (yes) yes	r: (no) yes	r: (no) yes
  *		w: (no) no	w: (no) no	w: (copy) copy	w: (no) no
  *		x: (no) no	x: (no) yes	x: (no) yes	x: (yes) yes
- *
- * On arm64, PROT_EXEC has the following behaviour for both MAP_SHARED and
- * MAP_PRIVATE:
- *								r: (no) no
- *								w: (no) no
- *								x: (yes) yes
  */
 pgprot_t protection_map[16] __ro_after_init = {
 	__P000, __P001, __P010, __P011, __P100, __P101, __P110, __P111,
-- 
2.17.1




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