From 45e2a9d4701d8c624d4a4bcdd1084eae31e92f58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:47:37 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] x86, mm: Set NX across entire PMD at boot When setting up permissions on kernel memory at boot, the end of the PMD that was split from bss remained executable. It should be NX like the rest. This performs a PMD alignment instead of a PAGE alignment to get the correct span of memory. Before: ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]--- ... 0xffffffff8202d000-0xffffffff82200000 1868K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82200000-0xffffffff82c00000 10M RW PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffffffff82c00000-0xffffffff82df5000 2004K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82df5000-0xffffffff82e00000 44K RW GLB x pte 0xffffffff82e00000-0xffffffffc0000000 978M pmd After: ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]--- ... 0xffffffff8202d000-0xffffffff82200000 1868K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82200000-0xffffffff82e00000 12M RW PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffffffff82e00000-0xffffffffc0000000 978M pmd [ tglx: Changed it to roundup(_brk_end, PMD_SIZE) and added a comment. We really should unmap the reminder along with the holes caused by init,initdata etc. but thats a different issue ] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Toshi Kani Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: David Vrabel Cc: Wang Nan Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114194737.GA3091@www.outflux.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Reading git-format-patch failed