4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: K. Y. Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com> commit 372b1e91343e657a7cc5e2e2bcecd5140ac28119 upstream. The hypercall page only needs to be executable but currently it is setup to be writable as well. Fix the issue. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> Tested-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/hv/hv.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/hv/hv.c +++ b/drivers/hv/hv.c @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ int hv_init(void) /* See if the hypercall page is already set */ rdmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_HYPERCALL, hypercall_msr.as_uint64); - virtaddr = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC); + virtaddr = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_RX); if (!virtaddr) goto cleanup;