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Date:   Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:44:18 -0800 (PST)
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
To:     zong.li@...ive.com
CC:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>, aou@...s.berkeley.edu,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        zong.li@...ive.com
Subject:     Re: [PATCH 7/8] riscv: add DEBUG_WX support

On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:32:22 PST (-0800), zong.li@...ive.com wrote:
> Support DEBUG_WX to check whether there are mapping with write and
> execute permission at the same time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong.li@...ive.com>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig.debug        | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/ptdump.h |  6 ++++++
>  arch/riscv/mm/init.c            |  2 ++
>  3 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.debug b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.debug
> index e69de29bb2d1..2bcd88e75626 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +
> +config DEBUG_WX
> +	bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
> +	select PTDUMP_CORE
> +	help
> +	  Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
> +
> +	  This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving
> +	  W+X mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk.
> +	  This check also includes UXN, which should be set on all kernel
> +	  mappings.
> +
> +	  Look for a message in dmesg output like this:
> +
> +	    riscv/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
> +
> +	  or like this, if the check failed:
> +
> +	    riscv/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, <N> W+X pages found.
> +
> +	  Note that even if the check fails, your kernel is possibly
> +	  still fine, as W+X mappings are not a security hole in
> +	  themselves, what they do is that they make the exploitation
> +	  of other unfixed kernel bugs easier.
> +
> +	  There is no runtime or memory usage effect of this option
> +	  once the kernel has booted up - it's a one time check.
> +
> +	  If in doubt, say "Y".

It looks like this comes verbatim from the arm64 port, at least.  I think we
should just refactor this to some sort of ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX so we can share the
code.  I usually do this by adding the shared support, using it for RISC-V, and
then converting the other ports over.

> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/ptdump.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/ptdump.h
> index e29af7191909..eb2a1cc5f22c 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/ptdump.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/ptdump.h
> @@ -8,4 +8,10 @@
>
>  void ptdump_check_wx(void);
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_WX
> +#define debug_checkwx() ptdump_check_wx()
> +#else
> +#define debug_checkwx() do { } while (0)
> +#endif
> +
>  #endif /* _ASM_RISCV_PTDUMP_H */
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> index 09fa643e079c..a05d76e5fefe 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> @@ -509,6 +509,8 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
>  	set_memory_ro(rodata_start, (data_start - rodata_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
>  	set_memory_nx(rodata_start, (data_start - rodata_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
>  	set_memory_nx(data_start, (max_low - data_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> +
> +	debug_checkwx();
>  }
>  #endif