IB/hfi1: Remove overly conservative VM_EXEC flag check
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: 12220267 ("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>
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