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ARC: mm: allow mprotect to make stack mappings executable
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commit 93312b6 upstream.

mprotect(EXEC) was failing for stack mappings as default vm flags was
missing MAYEXEC.

This was triggered by glibc test suite nptl/tst-execstack testcase

What is surprising is that despite running LTP for years on, we didn't
catch this issue as it lacks a directed test case.

gcc dejagnu tests with nested functions also requiring exec stack work
fine though because they rely on the GNU_STACK segment spit out by
compiler and handled in kernel elf loader.

This glibc case is different as the stack is non exec to begin with and
a dlopen of shared lib with GNU_STACK segment triggers the exec stack
proceedings using a mprotect(PROT_EXEC) which was broken.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Vineet Gupta authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Jul 25, 2018
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/arc/include/asm/page.h
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Expand Up @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ typedef pte_t * pgtable_t;
#define virt_addr_valid(kaddr) pfn_valid(virt_to_pfn(kaddr))

/* Default Permissions for stack/heaps pages (Non Executable) */
#define VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS (VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE)
#define VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS (VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC)

#define WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL 1

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