x86/mm/32: Fix W^X detection when page tables do not support NX

The x86 MM code now actively refuses to create writable+executable mappings,
and warns when there is an attempt to create one.

The 0day test robot ran across a warning triggered by module unloading on
32-bit kernels.  This was only seen on CPUs with NX support, but where a
32-bit kernel was built without PAE support.

On those systems, there is no room for the NX bit in the page
tables and _PAGE_NX is #defined to 0, breaking some of the W^X
detection logic in verify_rwx().  The X86_FEATURE_NX check in
there does not do any good here because the CPU itself supports
NX.

Fix it by checking for _PAGE_NX support directly instead of
checking CPU support for NX.

Note that since _PAGE_NX is actually defined to be 0 at
compile-time this fix should also end up letting the compiler
optimize away most of verify_rwx() on non-PAE kernels.

Fixes: 652c5bf380ad ("x86/mm: Refuse W^X violations")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/fcf89147-440b-e478-40c9-228c9fe56691@intel.com/

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
index 1a2d637..20b1e24 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
@@ -587,7 +587,8 @@ static inline pgprot_t verify_rwx(pgprot_t old, pgprot_t new, unsigned long star
 {
        unsigned long end;
 
-       if (!cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_NX))
+       /* Only enforce when NX is supported: */
+       if (!(__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX))
                return new;
 
        if (!((pgprot_val(old) ^ pgprot_val(new)) & (_PAGE_RW | _PAGE_NX)))