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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:30:45 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@....es>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
	Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	x86@...nel.org,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/7] x86/elf: Disable automatic READ_IMPLIES_EXEC for 64-bit address spaces

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@....es>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
index a7035065377c..c9b7be0bcad3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ extern u32 elf_hwcap2;
  *              CPU: | lacks NX*  | has NX, ia32     | has NX, x86_64 |
  * ELF:              |            |                  |                |
  * -------------------------------|------------------|----------------|
- * missing GNU_STACK | exec-all   | exec-all         | exec-all       |
+ * missing GNU_STACK | exec-all   | exec-all         | exec-none      |
  * GNU_STACK == RWX  | exec-stack | exec-stack       | exec-stack     |
  * GNU_STACK == RW   | exec-none  | exec-none        | exec-none      |
  *
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ extern u32 elf_hwcap2;
  *
  */
 #define elf_read_implies_exec(ex, executable_stack)	\
-	(executable_stack == EXSTACK_DEFAULT)
+	(mmap_is_ia32() && executable_stack == EXSTACK_DEFAULT)
 
 struct task_struct;
 
-- 
2.20.1

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