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| author | James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> | 2011-04-14 18:25:21 -0500 |
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| committer | James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> | 2011-04-15 12:55:18 -0500 |
| commit | d7dd2ff11b7fcd425aca5a875983c862d19a67ae (patch) | |
| tree | 6ad74d89d2355861b513eefb763ea6103a8d68e7 /arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h | |
| parent | e38f5b745075828ac51b12c8c95c85a7be4a3ec7 (diff) | |
[PARISC] only make executable areas executable
Currently parisc has the whole kernel marked as RWX, meaning any
kernel page at all is eligible to be executed. This can cause a
theoretical problem on systems with combined I/D TLB because the act
of referencing a page causes a TLB insertion with an executable bit.
This TLB entry may be used by the CPU as the basis for speculating the
page into the I-Cache. If this speculated page is subsequently used
for a user process, there is the possibility we will get a stale
I-cache line picked up as the binary executes.
As a point of good practise, only mark actual kernel text pages as
executable. The same has to be done for init_text pages, but they're
converted to data pages (and the I-Cache flushed) when the init memory
is released.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h index 5d7b8ce9fdf..22dadeb5869 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h +++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h @@ -177,7 +177,10 @@ struct vm_area_struct; #define _PAGE_TABLE (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_READ | _PAGE_WRITE | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_ACCESSED) #define _PAGE_CHG_MASK (PAGE_MASK | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY) -#define _PAGE_KERNEL (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_EXEC | _PAGE_READ | _PAGE_WRITE | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_ACCESSED) +#define _PAGE_KERNEL_RO (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_READ | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_ACCESSED) +#define _PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC (_PAGE_KERNEL_RO | _PAGE_EXEC) +#define _PAGE_KERNEL_RWX (_PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC | _PAGE_WRITE) +#define _PAGE_KERNEL (_PAGE_KERNEL_RO | _PAGE_WRITE) /* The pgd/pmd contains a ptr (in phys addr space); since all pgds/pmds * are page-aligned, we don't care about the PAGE_OFFSET bits, except @@ -208,7 +211,9 @@ struct vm_area_struct; #define PAGE_COPY PAGE_EXECREAD #define PAGE_RWX __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_USER | _PAGE_READ | _PAGE_WRITE | _PAGE_EXEC |_PAGE_ACCESSED) #define PAGE_KERNEL __pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL) -#define PAGE_KERNEL_RO __pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL & ~_PAGE_WRITE) +#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC __pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC) +#define PAGE_KERNEL_RWX __pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL_RWX) +#define PAGE_KERNEL_RO __pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL_RO) #define PAGE_KERNEL_UNC __pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_NO_CACHE) #define PAGE_GATEWAY __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_USER | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_GATEWAY| _PAGE_READ) |