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arm64: Introduce execute-only page access permissions
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Thu, 3 Apr 2014 15:17:32 +0000 (16:17 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fri, 9 May 2014 14:53:36 +0000 (15:53 +0100)
commitbc07c2c6e9ed125d362af0214b6313dca180cb08
treea5a63f1272c11e321999145b8b7e8135b094aaaa
parent15af1942dd61ee236a48b3de14d6f31c0b9e8116
arm64: Introduce execute-only page access permissions

The ARMv8 architecture allows execute-only user permissions by clearing
the PTE_UXN and PTE_USER bits. The kernel, however, can still access
such page, so execute-only page permission does not protect against
read(2)/write(2) etc. accesses. Systems requiring such protection must
implement/enable features like SECCOMP.

This patch changes the arm64 __P100 and __S100 protection_map[] macros
to the new __PAGE_EXECONLY attributes. A side effect is that
pte_valid_user() no longer triggers for __PAGE_EXECONLY since PTE_USER
isn't set. To work around this, the check is done on the PTE_NG bit via
the pte_valid_ng() macro. VM_READ is also checked now for page faults.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c