ARC: [mm] Make stack/heap Non-executable by default

1. For VM_EXEC based delayed dcache/icache flush, reduces the number of
   flushes.

2. Makes this security feature ON by default rather than OFF before.

3. Applications can use mprotect() to selectively override this.

4. ELF binaries have a GNU_STACK segment which can easily override the
   kernel default permissions.
   For nested-functions/trampolines, gcc already auto-enables executable
   stack in elf. Others needing this can use -Wl,-z,execstack option.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This commit is contained in:
Vineet Gupta 2013-06-05 17:49:14 +05:30
parent 2ed21dae02
commit 3abc944802
2 changed files with 1 additions and 13 deletions

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@ -362,13 +362,6 @@ config ARC_MISALIGN_ACCESS
Use ONLY-IF-ABS-NECESSARY as it will be very slow and also can hide
potential bugs in code
config ARC_STACK_NONEXEC
bool "Make stack non-executable"
default n
help
To disable the execute permissions of stack/heap of processes
which are enabled by default.
config HZ
int "Timer Frequency"
default 100

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@ -96,13 +96,8 @@ typedef unsigned long pgtable_t;
#define virt_addr_valid(kaddr) pfn_valid(__pa(kaddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
/* Default Permissions for page, used in mmap.c */
#ifdef CONFIG_ARC_STACK_NONEXEC
/* Default Permissions for stack/heaps pages (Non Executable) */
#define VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS (VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE)
#else
#define VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS (VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_EXEC | \
VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC)
#endif
#define WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL 1