arm64: Introduce execute-only page access permissions

Browse source

The ARMv8 architecture allows execute-only user permissions by clearing
the PTE_UXN and PTE_USER bits. The kernel, however, can still access
such page, so execute-only page permission does not protect against
read(2)/write(2) etc. accesses. Systems requiring such protection must
implement/enable features like SECCOMP.

This patch changes the arm64 __P100 and __S100 protection_map[] macros
to the new __PAGE_EXECONLY attributes. A side effect is that
pte_valid_user() no longer triggers for __PAGE_EXECONLY since PTE_USER
isn't set. To work around this, the check is done on the PTE_NG bit via
the pte_valid_ng() macro. VM_READ is also checked now for page faults.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

...

This commit is contained in:

Catalin Marinas 2014-04-03 16:17:32 +01:00

parent 15af1942dd

commit bc07c2c6e9

2 changed files with 8 additions and 8 deletions

Show all changes Ignore whitespace when comparing lines Ignore changes in amount of whitespace Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL

Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

11

arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h

View file

5

arch/arm64/mm/fault.c

View file