[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 20961] New: Protect and mark JIT buffers executable

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20961

           Summary: Protect and mark JIT buffers executable
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: SquirrelFish
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: JavaScriptCore
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: alp at nuanti.com


X86Assembler.h currently uses plain fastMalloc() for its buffer.

We should consider using mprotect() (or VirtualAlloc() on Windows) to:

1) Mark the memory executable with PROT_EXEC, probably necessary for the JIT to
work with NX (no-execute) security capabilities enabled.

2) When compilation is completed, mark the memory read-only with PROT_WRITE.
Prevents further modification of JITed code, which could stop unrelated
security flaws like buffer overflow from escalating to arbitrary code
execution.

mprotect() expects memory to be aligned to a page boundary (smallest
granularity typically 4k) so we might want to allocate out of a custom memory
pool.


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