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Unverified Commit 9e2e6042 authored by Andrew Bresticker's avatar Andrew Bresticker Committed by Palmer Dabbelt
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riscv: Allow PROT_WRITE-only mmap()

Commit 2139619b ("riscv: mmap with PROT_WRITE but no PROT_READ is
invalid") made mmap() return EINVAL if PROT_WRITE was set wihtout
PROT_READ with the justification that a write-only PTE is considered a
reserved PTE permission bit pattern in the privileged spec. This check
is unnecessary since we let VM_WRITE imply VM_READ on RISC-V, and it is
inconsistent with other architectures that don't support write-only PTEs,
creating a potential software portability issue. Just remove the check
altogether and let PROT_WRITE imply PROT_READ as is the case on other
architectures.

Note that this also allows PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC mappings which were
disallowed prior to the aforementioned commit; PROT_READ is implied in
such mappings as well.

Fixes: 2139619b

 ("riscv: mmap with PROT_WRITE but no PROT_READ is invalid")
Reviewed-by: default avatarAtish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Bresticker <abrestic@rivosinc.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915193702.2201018-3-abrestic@rivosinc.com/
Signed-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
parent 7ab72c59
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