[PATCH v4 1/2] riscv: Make VM_WRITE imply VM_READ

Andrew Bresticker abrestic at rivosinc.com
Thu Sep 15 12:37:01 PDT 2022


RISC-V does not presently have write-only mappings as that PTE bit pattern
is considered reserved in the privileged spec, so allow handling of read
faults in VMAs that have VM_WRITE without VM_READ in order to be consistent
with other architectures that have similar limitations.

Fixes: 2139619bcad7 ("riscv: mmap with PROT_WRITE but no PROT_READ is invalid")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v4.19+
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp at rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic at rivosinc.com>
---
new in v3
v3 -> v4: add Fixes tag
---
 arch/riscv/mm/fault.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
index f2fbd1400b7c..d86f7cebd4a7 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
@@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ static inline bool access_error(unsigned long cause, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		}
 		break;
 	case EXC_LOAD_PAGE_FAULT:
-		if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_READ)) {
+		/* Write implies read */
+		if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_WRITE))) {
 			return true;
 		}
 		break;
-- 
2.25.1




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