linux/arch/arm64/include
Catalin Marinas f46fdb8a26 arm64: Improve detection of user/non-user mappings in set_pte(_at)
commit ec663d967b upstream.

Commit cab15ce604 ("arm64: Introduce execute-only page access
permissions") allowed a valid user PTE to have the PTE_USER bit clear.
As a consequence, the pte_valid_not_user() macro in set_pte() was
replaced with pte_valid_global() under the assumption that only user
pages have the nG bit set. EFI mappings, however, also have the nG bit
set and set_pte() wrongly ignores issuing the DSB+ISB.

This patch reinstates the pte_valid_not_user() macro and adds the
PTE_UXN bit check since all kernel mappings have this bit set. For
clarity, pte_exec() is renamed to pte_user_exec() as it only checks for
the absence of PTE_UXN. Consequently, the user executable check in
set_pte_at() drops the pte_ng() test since pte_user_exec() is
sufficient.

Fixes: cab15ce604 ("arm64: Introduce execute-only page access permissions")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2017-05-14 14:00:15 +02:00
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asm arm64: Improve detection of user/non-user mappings in set_pte(_at) 2017-05-14 14:00:15 +02:00
uapi/asm arm64/ptrace: Avoid uninitialised struct padding in fpr_set() 2017-01-26 08:24:41 +01:00