[tip: x86/mm] x86/mm: Do verify W^X at boot up

From: tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Nov 02 2022 - 05:14:45 EST


The following commit has been merged into the x86/mm branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 237c7e967566ca7048fd7e74951fccb026f92df0
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/237c7e967566ca7048fd7e74951fccb026f92df0
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 21:39:43 +02:00
Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:43:58 +01:00

x86/mm: Do verify W^X at boot up

Straight up revert of commit:

a970174d7a10 ("x86/mm: Do not verify W^X at boot up")

now that the root cause has been fixed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221025201058.011279208@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
index 2e5a045..97342c4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
@@ -587,10 +587,6 @@ static inline pgprot_t verify_rwx(pgprot_t old, pgprot_t new, unsigned long star
{
unsigned long end;

- /* Kernel text is rw at boot up */
- if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING)
- return new;
-
/*
* 32-bit has some unfixable W+X issues, like EFI code
* and writeable data being in the same page. Disable