linux-kernel - [ 004/100] ARM: 7654/1: Preserve L_PTE_VALID in pte

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:30:49 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Subash Patel <subash.rp@...sung.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: [ 004/100] ARM: 7654/1: Preserve L_PTE_VALID in pte_modify()

3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

commit 69dde4c52dbac2891b49ff9723d9c84efc5baf6f upstream.

Following commit 26ffd0d4 (ARM: mm: introduce present, faulting entries
for PAGE_NONE), if a page has been mapped as PROT_NONE, the L_PTE_VALID
bit is cleared by the set_pte_ext() code. With LPAE the software and
hardware pte share the same location and subsequent modifications of pte
range (change_protection()) will leave the L_PTE_VALID bit cleared.

This patch adds the L_PTE_VALID bit to the newprot mask in pte_modify().

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Reported-by: Subash Patel <subash.rp@...sung.com>
Tested-by: Subash Patel <subash.rp@...sung.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -240,7 +240,8 @@ static inline pte_t pte_mkspecial(pte_t
 
 static inline pte_t pte_modify(pte_t pte, pgprot_t newprot)
 {
-	const pteval_t mask = L_PTE_XN | L_PTE_RDONLY | L_PTE_USER | L_PTE_NONE;
+	const pteval_t mask = L_PTE_XN | L_PTE_RDONLY | L_PTE_USER |
+		L_PTE_NONE | L_PTE_VALID;
 	pte_val(pte) = (pte_val(pte) & ~mask) | (pgprot_val(newprot) & mask);
 	return pte;
 }


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/