From 43506f192fac83d06f6f8d78ceaccf4128cc6df9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 18:30:56 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] drivers: hv: Turn off write permission on the hypercall page commit 372b1e91343e657a7cc5e2e2bcecd5140ac28119 upstream. The hypercall page only needs to be executable but currently it is setup to be writable as well. Fix the issue. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Acked-by: Kees Cook Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger Tested-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust filename, context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/hv/hv.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv.c b/drivers/hv/hv.c index b83afe484415..a8b9eea5c4fc 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/hv.c +++ b/drivers/hv/hv.c @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ int hv_init(void) /* See if the hypercall page is already set */ rdmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_HYPERCALL, hypercall_msr.as_uint64); - virtaddr = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC); + virtaddr = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_RX); if (!virtaddr) goto cleanup;