[PATCH 4/5] arm/arm64: KVM: Map the HYP text as read-only

[Marc Zyngier]

On 13/06/16 16:02, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 03:00:48PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> There should be no reason for mapping the HYP text read/write.
>>
>> As such, let's have a new set of flags (PAGE_HYP_EXEC) that allows
>> execution, but makes the page as read-only, and update the two call
>> sites that deal with mapping code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h        | 1 +
>>  arch/arm/kvm/arm.c                    | 2 +-
>>  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c                    | 2 +-
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h | 1 +
>>  4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> index f332087..7487bf9 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ extern pgprot_t		pgprot_s2_device;
>>  #define PAGE_KERNEL		_MOD_PROT(pgprot_kernel, L_PTE_XN)
>>  #define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC	pgprot_kernel
>>  #define PAGE_HYP		_MOD_PROT(pgprot_kernel, L_PTE_HYP)
>> +#define PAGE_HYP_EXEC		_MOD_PROT(pgprot_kernel, L_PTE_HYP | L_PTE_RDONLY)
>>  #define PAGE_HYP_RO		_MOD_PROT(pgprot_kernel, L_PTE_HYP | L_PTE_RDONLY | L_PTE_XN)
>>  #define PAGE_HYP_DEVICE		_MOD_PROT(pgprot_hyp_device, L_PTE_HYP)
>>  #define PAGE_S2			_MOD_PROT(pgprot_s2, L_PTE_S2_RDONLY)
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
>> index 0b5099f..d7bf2dd 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
>> @@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ static int init_hyp_mode(void)
>>  	 * Map the Hyp-code called directly from the host
>>  	 */
>>  	err = create_hyp_mappings(kvm_ksym_ref(__hyp_text_start),
>> -				  kvm_ksym_ref(__hyp_text_end), PAGE_HYP);
>> +				  kvm_ksym_ref(__hyp_text_end), PAGE_HYP_EXEC);
> 
> As far as I can tell, __hyp_text_{start,end} aren't guaranteed to be
> page-aligned. Are we certain that we'll never share a page with
> something that we'll subsequently want to map non-executable?

The HYP text sits firmly in the middle of the rest of the text, so I'm
not too worried. We could force some additional alignment just in case
we end-up moving things around, but I don't see it as a problem we can
have today.

> Otherwise this looks good!

Thanks,

	M.
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