ARM: 8721/1: mm: dump: check hardware RO bit for LPAE
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1744873 commit 3b0c0c92 upstream. When CONFIG_ARM_LPAE is set, the PMD dump relies on the software read-only bit to determine whether a page is writable. This concealed a bug which left the kernel text section writable (AP2=0) while marked read-only in the software bit. In a kernel with the AP2 bug, the dump looks like this: ---[ Kernel Mapping ]--- 0xc0000000-0xc0200000 2M RW NX SHD 0xc0200000-0xc0600000 4M ro x SHD 0xc0600000-0xc0800000 2M ro NX SHD 0xc0800000-0xc4800000 64M RW NX SHD The fix is to check that the software and hardware bits are both set before displaying "ro". The dump then shows the true perms: ---[ Kernel Mapping ]--- 0xc0000000-0xc0200000 2M RW NX SHD 0xc0200000-0xc0600000 4M RW x SHD 0xc0600000-0xc0800000 2M RW NX SHD 0xc0800000-0xc4800000 64M RW NX SHD Fixes: ded94779 ("ARM: 8109/1: mm: Modify pte_write and pmd_write logic for LPAE") Signed-off-by: Philip Derrin <philip@cog.systems> Tested-by: Neil Dick <neil@cog.systems> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
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