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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 0/2] Make mmap() with PROT_WRITE imply PROT_READ
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 12:37:00 PDT (-0700), abrestic@rivosinc.com wrote:
> Commit 2139619bcad7 ("riscv: mmap with PROT_WRITE but no PROT_READ is
> invalid") made mmap() reject mappings with only PROT_WRITE set in an
> attempt to fix an observed inconsistency in behavior when attempting
> to read from a PROT_WRITE-only mapping. The root cause of this behavior
> was actually that while RISC-V's protection_map maps VM_WRITE to
> readable PTE permissions (since write-only PTEs are considered reserved
> by the privileged spec), the page fault handler considered loads from
> VM_WRITE-only VMAs illegal accesses. Fix the underlying cause by
> handling faults in VM_WRITE-only VMAs (patch 1) and then re-enable
> use of mmap(PROT_WRITE) (patch 2), making RISC-V's behavior consistent
> with all other architectures that don't support write-only PTEs.
>
> Both patches are tagged as fixes for the aforementioned commit since that
> commit made a userspace visible change that will break any software relying
> on mmap(PROT_WRITE). (Also cc: stable since the offending commit was
> itself backported to stable).
>
> v1 -> v2: Allow handling of load faults in VM_WRITE VMAs
> v2 -> v3: Split into two pathces
> v3 -> v4: Fixes tags (+ this cover letter)
>
> Andrew Bresticker (2):
> riscv: Make VM_WRITE imply VM_READ
> riscv: Allow PROT_WRITE-only mmap()
>
> arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c | 3 ---
> arch/riscv/mm/fault.c | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Thanks, these are on for-next.

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