drivers: hv: Turn off write permission on the hypercall page
authorK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Thu, 9 Feb 2017 01:30:56 +0000 (18:30 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 02:02:52 +0000 (10:02 +0800)
commit 372b1e91343e657a7cc5e2e2bcecd5140ac28119 upstream.

The hypercall page only needs to be executable but currently it is setup to
be writable as well. Fix the issue.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Tested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/hv/hv.c

index 6e49a4d..e0a8216 100644 (file)
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ int hv_init(void)
        /* See if the hypercall page is already set */
        rdmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_HYPERCALL, hypercall_msr.as_uint64);
 
-       virtaddr = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
+       virtaddr = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_RX);
 
        if (!virtaddr)
                goto cleanup;