From: Andrew Bresticker abrestic@rivosinc.com
commit 9e2e6042a7ec6504fe8e366717afa2f40cf16488 upstream.
Commit 2139619bcad7 ("riscv: mmap with PROT_WRITE but no PROT_READ is invalid") made mmap() return EINVAL if PROT_WRITE was set wihtout PROT_READ with the justification that a write-only PTE is considered a reserved PTE permission bit pattern in the privileged spec. This check is unnecessary since we let VM_WRITE imply VM_READ on RISC-V, and it is inconsistent with other architectures that don't support write-only PTEs, creating a potential software portability issue. Just remove the check altogether and let PROT_WRITE imply PROT_READ as is the case on other architectures.
Note that this also allows PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC mappings which were disallowed prior to the aforementioned commit; PROT_READ is implied in such mappings as well.
Fixes: 2139619bcad7 ("riscv: mmap with PROT_WRITE but no PROT_READ is invalid") Reviewed-by: Atish Patra atishp@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker abrestic@rivosinc.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915193702.2201018-3-abrestic@rivosinc.com/ Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt palmer@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c @@ -26,9 +26,6 @@ static long riscv_sys_mmap(unsigned long if (unlikely(offset & (~PAGE_MASK >> page_shift_offset))) return -EINVAL;
- if (unlikely((prot & PROT_WRITE) && !(prot & PROT_READ))) - return -EINVAL; - return ksys_mmap_pgoff(addr, len, prot, flags, fd, offset >> (PAGE_SHIFT - page_shift_offset)); }