[PATCH 0/5] arm/arm64: KVM: Tighten memory protection flags

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Jun 15 07:51:18 PDT 2016


On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 03:00:44PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> So far, the HYP mappings have been fairly relaxed: everything is
> RWX. Oddly enough, not everybody is fond of this kind of permissions
> at the highest exception level.
> 
> This small series tightens it a bit by making:
> - the text mapping read-only
> - the rodata mapping read-only + no-exec
> - everything else read-write + no-exec
> 
> Of course, that's only valid when VHE is not in action. Tested on
> Seattle and Cubietruck, based on 4.7-rc2.

Looks good to me. For the series:

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

Will



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