x86/elf: Disable automatic READ_IMPLIES_EXEC on 64-bit
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Fri, 27 Mar 2020 06:48:17 +0000 (23:48 -0700)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:24:33 +0000 (19:24 +0200)
commit9fccc5c0c99f238aa1b0460fccbdb30a887e7036
treece74f5ea115587fe836851a2c33f605360b1c608
parent122306117afe4ba202b5e57c61dfbeffc5c41387
x86/elf: Disable automatic READ_IMPLIES_EXEC on 64-bit

With modern x86 64-bit environments, there should never be a need for
automatic READ_IMPLIES_EXEC, as the architecture is intended to always
be execute-bit aware (as in, the default memory protection should be NX
unless a region explicitly requests to be executable).

There were very old x86_64 systems that lacked the NX bit, but for those,
the NX bit is, obviously, unenforceable, so these changes should have
no impact on them.

Suggested-by: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327064820.12602-4-keescook@chromium.org
arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h