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    x86/mm/pkeys: Fix access_error() denial of writes to write-only VMA · e2155543
    Dave Hansen authored
    
    
    Andrey Wagin reported that a simple test case was broken by:
    
    	2b5f7d013fc ("mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add execute-only protection keys support")
    
    This test case creates an unreadable VMA and my patch assumed
    that all writes must be to readable VMAs.
    
    The simplest fix for this is to remove the pkey-related bits
    in access_error().  For execute-only support, I believe the
    existing version is sufficient because the permissions we
    are trying to enforce are entirely expressed in vma->vm_flags.
    We just depend on pkeys to get *an* exception, it does not
    matter that PF_PK was set, or even what state PKRU is in.
    
    I will re-add the necessary bits with the full pkeys
    implementation that includes the new syscalls.
    
    The three cases that matter are:
    
    1. If a write to an execute-only VMA occurs, we will see PF_WRITE
       set, but !VM_WRITE on the VMA, and return 1.  All execute-only
       VMAs have VM_WRITE clear by definition.
    2. If a read occurs on a present PTE, we will fall in to the "read,
       present" case and return 1.
    3. If a read occurs to a non-present PTE, we will miss the "read,
       not present" case, because the execute-only VMA will have
       VM_EXEC set, and we will properly return 0 allowing the PTE to
       be populated.
    
    Test program:
    
     int main()
     {
    	int *p;
    	p = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
    	p[0] = 1;
    
    	return 0;
     }
    
    Reported-by: default avatarAndrey Wagin <avagin@gmail.com&gt;,>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
    Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
    Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org
    Fixes: 62b5f7d0 ("mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add execute-only protection keys support")
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160301194133.65D0110C@viggo.jf.intel.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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