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From: "Michael J. Ruhl" <michael.j.ruhl@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 12:42:04 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] IB/hfi1: Remove overly conservative VM_EXEC flag check

Git-commit: 7709b0dc265f28695487712c45f02bbd1f98415d
Patch-mainline: v5.0-rc5
References: jsc#SLE-4925 bsc#1144449

Applications that use the stack for execution purposes cause userspace PSM
jobs to fail during mmap().

Both Fortran (non-standard format parsing) and C (callback functions
located in the stack) applications can be written such that stack
execution is required. The linker notes this via the gnu_stack ELF flag.

This causes READ_IMPLIES_EXEC to be set which forces all PROT_READ mmaps
to have PROT_EXEC for the process.

Checking for VM_EXEC bit and failing the request with EPERM is overly
conservative and will break any PSM application using executable stacks.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #v4.14+
Fixes: 12220267645c ("IB/hfi: Protect against writable mmap")
Reviewed-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Firo Yang <firo.yang@suse.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c
index 05e13868d4cb..6c248c0a3a6e 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ static int hfi1_file_mmap(struct file *fp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		vmf = 1;
 		break;
 	case STATUS:
-		if (flags & (unsigned long)(VM_WRITE | VM_EXEC)) {
+		if (flags & VM_WRITE) {
 			ret = -EPERM;
 			goto done;
 		}
-- 
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