IB/hfi1: Remove overly conservative VM_EXEC flag check
authorMichael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl@intel.com>
Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:42:04 +0000 (12:42 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 6 Feb 2019 16:31:36 +0000 (17:31 +0100)
commit31ba885621f23a53c8651665ae04e716c0a30694
treed219551e433037a0ad4d6bdad9c6de8dd47d9bd9
parenta93404876d977150b37854b7c49253d9bcf6e726
IB/hfi1: Remove overly conservative VM_EXEC flag check

commit 7709b0dc265f28695487712c45f02bbd1f98415d upstream.

Applications that use the stack for execution purposes cause userspace PSM
jobs to fail during mmap().

Both Fortran (non-standard format parsing) and C (callback functions
located in the stack) applications can be written such that stack
execution is required. The linker notes this via the gnu_stack ELF flag.

This causes READ_IMPLIES_EXEC to be set which forces all PROT_READ mmaps
to have PROT_EXEC for the process.

Checking for VM_EXEC bit and failing the request with EPERM is overly
conservative and will break any PSM application using executable stacks.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #v4.14+
Fixes: 12220267645c ("IB/hfi: Protect against writable mmap")
Reviewed-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c