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Michael Ellerman
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If a relocatable kernel is loaded at a non-zero address and told not to
relocate to zero (kdump or RELOCATABLE_TEST), the mapping of the
interrupt code at zero is left with RWX permissions.
That is a security weakness, and leads to a warning at boot if
CONFIG_DEBUG_WX is enabled:
powerpc/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address 00000000056435bc/0xc000000000000000
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c:193 note_page+0x484/0x4c0
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-00001-g8ae8e98aea82-dirty #175
Hardware name: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) POWER9 (raw) 0x4e1202 0xf000005 of:SLOF,git-dd0dca hv:linux,kvm pSeries
NIP: c0000000004a1c34 LR: c0000000004a1c30 CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c000000003503770 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (6.2.0-rc1-00001-g8ae8e98aea82-dirty)
MSR: 8000000002029033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 24000220 XER: 00000000
CFAR: c000000000545a58 IRQMASK: 0
...
NIP note_page+0x484/0x4c0
LR note_page+0x480/0x4c0
Call Trace:
note_page+0x480/0x4c0 (unreliable)
ptdump_pmd_entry+0xc8/0x100
walk_pgd_range+0x618/0xab0
walk_page_range_novma+0x74/0xc0
ptdump_walk_pgd+0x98/0x170
ptdump_check_wx+0x94/0x100
mark_rodata_ro+0x30/0x70
kernel_init+0x78/0x1a0
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
The fix has two parts. Firstly the pages from zero up to the end of
interrupts need to be marked read-only, so that they are left with R-X
permissions. Secondly the mapping logic needs to be taught to ensure
there is a page boundary at the end of the interrupt region, so that the
permission change only applies to the interrupt text, and not the region
following it.
Fixes: c55d7b5e64 ("powerpc: Remove STRICT_KERNEL_RWX incompatibility with RELOCATABLE")
Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230110124753.1325426-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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