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The x86 MM code now actively refuses to create writable+executable mappings,
and warns when there is an attempt to create one.
The 0day test robot ran across a warning triggered by module unloading on
32-bit kernels. This was only seen on CPUs with NX support, but where a
32-bit kernel was built without PAE support.
On those systems, there is no room for the NX bit in the page
tables and _PAGE_NX is #defined to 0, breaking some of the W^X
detection logic in verify_rwx(). The X86_FEATURE_NX check in
there does not do any good here because the CPU itself supports
NX.
Fix it by checking for _PAGE_NX support directly instead of
checking CPU support for NX.
Note that since _PAGE_NX is actually defined to be 0 at
compile-time this fix should also end up letting the compiler
optimize away most of verify_rwx() on non-PAE kernels.
Fixes: 652c5bf380 ("x86/mm: Refuse W^X violations")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/fcf89147-440b-e478-40c9-228c9fe56691@intel.com/
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