UPSTREAM: arm64: map [_text, _stext) virtual address range non-executable+read-only
Since the referenced fixes commit, the kernel's .text section is only mapped starting from _stext; the region [_text, _stext) is omitted. As a result, other vmalloc/vmap allocations may use the virtual addresses nominally in the range [_text, _stext). This address reuse confuses multiple things: 1. crash_prepare_elf64_headers() sets up a segment in /proc/vmcore mapping the entire range [_text, _end) to [__pa_symbol(_text), __pa_symbol(_end)). Reading an address in [_text, _stext) from /proc/vmcore therefore gives the incorrect result. 2. Tools doing symbolization (either by reading /proc/kallsyms or based on the vmlinux ELF file) will incorrectly identify vmalloc/vmap allocations in [_text, _stext) as kernel symbols. In practice, both of these issues affect the drgn debugger. Specifically, there were cases where the vmap IRQ stacks for some CPUs were allocated in [_text, _stext). As a result, drgn could not get the stack trace for a crash in an IRQ handler because the core dump contained invalid data for the IRQ stack address. The stack addresses were also symbolized as being in the _text symbol. Fix this by bringing back the mapping of [_text, _stext), but now make it non-executable and read-only. This prevents other allocations from using it while still achieving the original goal of not mapping unpredictable data as executable. Other than the changed protection, this is effectively a revert of the fixes commit. Bug: 448550230 (cherry picked from commit 5973a62e) Fixes: e2a073dd ("arm64: omit [_text, _stext) from permanent kernel mapping") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Change-Id: Ibc5068e79f47f303dfc3bde6258a2f6844d26a15 Signed-off-by:Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
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