[PATCH 2/2] ARM: mm: dump: check hardware RO bit for LPAE
Philip Derrin
philip at cog.systems
Wed Nov 8 16:41:44 PST 2017
When CONFIG_ARM_LPAE is set, the PMD dump relies on the software
read-only bit to determine whether a page is writable. This
concealed a bug which left the kernel text section writable
(AP2=0) while marked read-only in the software bit.
In a kernel with the AP2 bug, the dump looks like this:
---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
0xc0000000-0xc0200000 2M RW NX SHD
0xc0200000-0xc0600000 4M ro x SHD
0xc0600000-0xc0800000 2M ro NX SHD
0xc0800000-0xc4800000 64M RW NX SHD
The fix is to check that the software and hardware bits are both
set before displaying "ro". The dump then shows the true perms:
---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
0xc0000000-0xc0200000 2M RW NX SHD
0xc0200000-0xc0600000 4M RW x SHD
0xc0600000-0xc0800000 2M RW NX SHD
0xc0800000-0xc4800000 64M RW NX SHD
Fixes: ded947798469 ("ARM: 8109/1: mm: Modify pte_write and pmd_write logic for LPAE")
Signed-off-by: Philip Derrin <philip at cog.systems>
Tested-by: Neil Dick <neil at cog.systems>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
arch/arm/mm/dump.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dump.c b/arch/arm/mm/dump.c
index 35ff45470dbf..fc3b44028cfb 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dump.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dump.c
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ static const struct prot_bits section_bits[] = {
.val = PMD_SECT_USER,
.set = "USR",
}, {
- .mask = L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY,
- .val = L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY,
+ .mask = L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY | PMD_SECT_AP2,
+ .val = L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY | PMD_SECT_AP2,
.set = "ro",
.clear = "RW",
#elif __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
--
2.15.0
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