From d5aad4c2ca057e760a92a9a7d65bd38d72963f27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zev Weiss Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:35:41 -0800 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Helge Deller [parisc] Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Florent Revest Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek Cc: Rick Edgecombe Cc: Russell King (Oracle) Cc: Sam James Cc: Stefan Roesch Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Yin Fengwei Cc: [6.3+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/sys.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sys.c') 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(); -- cgit v1.2.3