[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>
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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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@@ -692,6 +692,9 @@ ENTRY(fault_vector_11)
END(fault_vector_11)
#endif
/* Fault vector is separately protected and *must* be on its own page */
.align PAGE_SIZE
ENTRY(end_fault_vector)
.import handle_interruption,code
.import do_cpu_irq_mask,code