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Juergen Gross authored
When running as Xen PV guest in some cases W^X violation WARN()s have been observed. Those WARN()s are produced by verify_rwx(), which looks into the PTE to verify that writable kernel pages have the NX bit set in order to avoid code modifications of the kernel by rogue code. As the NX bits of all levels of translation entries are or-ed and the RW bits of all levels are and-ed, looking just into the PTE isn't enough for the decision that a writable page is executable, too. When running as a Xen PV guest, the direct map PMDs and kernel high map PMDs share the same set of PTEs. Xen kernel initialization will set the NX bit in the direct map PMD entries, and not the shared PTEs. Fixes: 652c5bf3 ("x86/mm: Refuse W^X violations") Reported-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240412151258.9171-5-jgross@suse.com
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