On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 12:50 PM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng...@intel.com> wrote:
>
> The IBT bitmap is visiable from user-mode, but not writable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng...@intel.com>
>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> index 59f4f66e4f2e..231196abb62e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> @@ -1454,6 +1454,13 @@ void do_user_addr_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
> * we can handle it..
> */
> good_area:
> +#define USER_MODE_WRITE (FAULT_FLAG_WRITE | FAULT_FLAG_USER)
> + if (((flags & USER_MODE_WRITE) == USER_MODE_WRITE) &&
> + (vma->vm_flags & VM_IBT)) {
> + bad_area_access_error(regs, hw_error_code, address, vma);
> + return;
> + }
> +
Just make the VMA have VM_WRITE and VM_MAYWRITE clear. No new code
like this should be required.
