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: 652c5bf3 ("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/
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