[PATCH v4 24/26] mm: add arch hook to validate mmap() prot flags

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Mon Jun 13 07:45:48 PDT 2022


Add a hook to permit architectures to perform validation on the prot
flags passed to mmap(), like arch_validate_prot() does for mprotect().
This will be used by arm64 to reject PROT_WRITE+PROT_EXEC mappings on
configurations that run with WXN enabled.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/mman.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
 mm/mmap.c            |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mman.h b/include/linux/mman.h
index 58b3abd457a3..53ac72310ce0 100644
--- a/include/linux/mman.h
+++ b/include/linux/mman.h
@@ -120,6 +120,21 @@ static inline bool arch_validate_flags(unsigned long flags)
 #define arch_validate_flags arch_validate_flags
 #endif
 
+#ifndef arch_validate_mmap_prot
+/*
+ * This is called from mmap(), which ignores unknown prot bits so the default
+ * is to accept anything.
+ *
+ * Returns true if the prot flags are valid
+ */
+static inline bool arch_validate_mmap_prot(unsigned long prot,
+					   unsigned long addr)
+{
+	return true;
+}
+#define arch_validate_mmap_prot arch_validate_mmap_prot
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Optimisation macro.  It is equivalent to:
  *      (x & bit1) ? bit2 : 0
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 61e6135c54ef..4a585879937d 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1437,6 +1437,9 @@ unsigned long do_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
 		if (!(file && path_noexec(&file->f_path)))
 			prot |= PROT_EXEC;
 
+	if (!arch_validate_mmap_prot(prot, addr))
+		return -EACCES;
+
 	/* force arch specific MAP_FIXED handling in get_unmapped_area */
 	if (flags & MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE)
 		flags |= MAP_FIXED;
-- 
2.30.2




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