x86/vdso: Set VM_MAYREAD for the vvar vma

The VVAR area can, obviously, be read; that is kind of the point.

AFAIK this has no effect whatsoever unless x86 suddenly turns into a
nommu architecture.  Nonetheless, not setting it is suspicious.

Reported-by: Nathan Lynch <Nathan_Lynch@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e4c8bf4bc2725bda22c4a4b7d0c82adcd8f8d9b8.1406330779.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
index dbef622bb5af..970463b566cf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static int map_vdso(const struct vdso_image *image, bool calculate_addr)
         vma = _install_special_mapping(mm,
                                        addr,
                                        -image->sym_vvar_start,
-                                       VM_READ,
+                                       VM_READ|VM_MAYREAD,
                                        &vvar_mapping);
 
         if (IS_ERR(vma)) {