[PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: Don't inherit exec permission across page-table levels

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Tue Jul 28 05:37:22 EDT 2020


On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:17:14 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> If a stage-2 page-table contains an executable, read-only mapping at the
> pte level (e.g. due to dirty logging being enabled), a subsequent write
> fault to the same page which tries to install a larger block mapping
> (e.g. due to dirty logging having been disabled) will erroneously inherit
> the exec permission and consequently skip I-cache invalidation for the
> rest of the block.
> 
> [...]

Applied to kvm-arm64/fixes-5.8-3, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: arm64: Don't inherit exec permission across page-table levels
      commit: b757b47a2fcba584d4a32fd7ee68faca510ab96f

Cheers,

	M.
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