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authorZev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net>2024-02-26 17:35:41 -0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-03-26 11:07:22 -0700
commitd5aad4c2ca057e760a92a9a7d65bd38d72963f27 (patch)
tree10ca480f747072ccee27f37c523a940fc786b8a4 /kernel/sys.c
parentdb09f2df916eade885aae63963449666d3a23f8d (diff)
prctl: generalize PR_SET_MDWE support check to be per-arch
Patch series "ARM: prctl: Reject PR_SET_MDWE where not supported". I noticed after a recent kernel update that my ARM926 system started segfaulting on any execve() after calling prctl(PR_SET_MDWE). After some investigation it appears that ARMv5 is incapable of providing the appropriate protections for MDWE, since any readable memory is also implicitly executable. The prctl_set_mdwe() function already had some special-case logic added disabling it on PARISC (commit 793838138c15, "prctl: Disable prctl(PR_SET_MDWE) on parisc"); this patch series (1) generalizes that check to use an arch_*() function, and (2) adds a corresponding override for ARM to disable MDWE on pre-ARMv6 CPUs. With the series applied, prctl(PR_SET_MDWE) is rejected on ARMv5 and subsequent execve() calls (as well as mmap(PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE)) can succeed instead of unconditionally failing; on ARMv6 the prctl works as it did previously. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/2023112456-linked-nape-bf19@gregkh/ This patch (of 2): There exist systems other than PARISC where MDWE may not be feasible to support; rather than cluttering up the generic code with additional arch-specific logic let's add a generic function for checking MDWE support and allow each arch to override it as needed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240227013546.15769-4-zev@bewilderbeest.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240227013546.15769-5-zev@bewilderbeest.net Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net> Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> [parisc] Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com> Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Cc: Russell King (Oracle) <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.3+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index f8e543f1e38a..8bb106a56b3a 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -2408,8 +2408,11 @@ static inline int prctl_set_mdwe(unsigned long bits, unsigned long arg3,
if (bits & PR_MDWE_NO_INHERIT && !(bits & PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN))
return -EINVAL;
- /* PARISC cannot allow mdwe as it needs writable stacks */
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PARISC))
+ /*
+ * EOPNOTSUPP might be more appropriate here in principle, but
+ * existing userspace depends on EINVAL specifically.
+ */
+ if (!arch_memory_deny_write_exec_supported())
return -EINVAL;
current_bits = get_current_mdwe();