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Commit 400eeffa authored by Philip Derrin's avatar Philip Derrin Committed by Russell King
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ARM: 8722/1: mm: make STRICT_KERNEL_RWX effective for LPAE



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: 1e347922 ("ARM: 8275/1: mm: fix PMD_SECT_RDONLY undeclared compile error")
Signed-off-by: default avatarPhilip Derrin <philip@cog.systems>
Reported-by: default avatarNeil Dick <neil@cog.systems>
Tested-by: default avatarNeil Dick <neil@cog.systems>
Tested-by: default avatarLaura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
parent 3b0c0c92
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