[PATCH v1 13/18] arm64: add PTE_WRITE to PROT_SECT_NORMAL
Joey Gouly
joey.gouly at arm.com
Thu Mar 9 06:52:41 PST 2023
With PIE enabled, PROT_SECT_NORMAL would map onto PAGE_KERNEL_RO.
Add PTE_WRITE so that this maps onto PAGE_KERNEL, so that it is writable.
Without PIE, this should enable DBM for PROT_SECT_NORMAL, which should be
functionally equivalent.
Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
index 9b165117a454..d26d0b427c0a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ extern bool arm64_use_ng_mappings;
#define PROT_NORMAL_TAGGED (PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_TAGGED))
#define PROT_SECT_DEVICE_nGnRE (PROT_SECT_DEFAULT | PMD_SECT_PXN | PMD_SECT_UXN | PMD_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_nGnRE))
-#define PROT_SECT_NORMAL (PROT_SECT_DEFAULT | PMD_SECT_PXN | PMD_SECT_UXN | PMD_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
+#define PROT_SECT_NORMAL (PROT_SECT_DEFAULT | PMD_SECT_PXN | PMD_SECT_UXN | PTE_WRITE | PMD_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
#define PROT_SECT_NORMAL_EXEC (PROT_SECT_DEFAULT | PMD_SECT_UXN | PMD_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
#define _PAGE_DEFAULT (_PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
--
2.17.1
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