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The AArch64 virtual memory system supports a global WXN control, which can be enabled to make all writable mappings implicitly no-exec. This is a useful hardening feature, as it prevents mistakes in managing page table permissions from being exploited to attack the system. When enabled at EL1, the restrictions apply to both EL1 and EL0. EL1 is completely under our control, and has been cleaned up to allow WXN to be enabled from boot onwards. EL0 is not under our control, but given that widely deployed security features such as selinux or PaX already limit the ability of user space to create mappings that are writable and executable at the same time, the impact of enabling this for EL0 is expected to be limited. (For this reason, common user space libraries that have a legitimate need for manipulating executable code already carry fallbacks such as [0].) If enabled at compile time, the feature can still be disabled at boot if needed, by passing arm64.nowxn on the kernel command line. [0] https://github.com/libffi/libffi/blob/master/src/closures.c#L440 Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214122845.2033971-88-ardb+git@google.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.