[tip: x86/mm] x86/mm/32: Fix W^X detection when page tables do not support NX
From: tip-bot2 for Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Sep 21 2022 - 03:41:54 EST
The following commit has been merged into the x86/mm branch of tip:
Commit-ID: 9377ad7b61bff3abfb375d307770d6aa454bc516
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/9377ad7b61bff3abfb375d307770d6aa454bc516
Author: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:54:54 -07:00
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 09:32:55 +02:00
x86/mm/32: Fix W^X detection when page tables do not support NX
The x86 MM code now actively refuses to create writable+executable mappings,
and warns when there is an attempt to create one.
The 0day test robot ran across a warning triggered by module unloading on
32-bit kernels. This was only seen on CPUs with NX support, but where a
32-bit kernel was built without PAE support.
On those systems, there is no room for the NX bit in the page
tables and _PAGE_NX is #defined to 0, breaking some of the W^X
detection logic in verify_rwx(). The X86_FEATURE_NX check in
there does not do any good here because the CPU itself supports
NX.
Fix it by checking for _PAGE_NX support directly instead of
checking CPU support for NX.
Note that since _PAGE_NX is actually defined to be 0 at
compile-time this fix should also end up letting the compiler
optimize away most of verify_rwx() on non-PAE kernels.
Fixes: 652c5bf380ad ("x86/mm: Refuse W^X violations")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/fcf89147-440b-e478-40c9-228c9fe56691@xxxxxxxxx/
---
arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
index 1a2d637..20b1e24 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
@@ -587,7 +587,8 @@ static inline pgprot_t verify_rwx(pgprot_t old, pgprot_t new, unsigned long star
{
unsigned long end;
- if (!cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_NX))
+ /* Only enforce when NX is supported: */
+ if (!(__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX))
return new;
if (!((pgprot_val(old) ^ pgprot_val(new)) & (_PAGE_RW | _PAGE_NX)))