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[PARISC] only make executable areas executable

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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>
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James Bottomley
2011-04-14 18:25:21 -05:00
committed by James Bottomley
parent e38f5b7450
commit d7dd2ff11b
6 changed files with 166 additions and 122 deletions
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arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h
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@@ -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)