2.6.23-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Huang, Ying patch 84e0fdb1754d066dd0a8b257de7299f392d1e727 in mainline. x86: NX bit handling in change_page_attr() This patch fixes a bug of change_page_attr/change_page_attr_addr on Intel x86_64 CPUs. After changing page attribute to be executable with these functions, the page remains un-executable on Intel x86_64 CPU. Because on Intel x86_64 CPU, only if the "NX" bits of all four level page tables are cleared, the corresponding page is executable (refer to section 4.13.2 of Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual). So, the bug is fixed through clearing the "NX" bit of PMD when splitting the huge PMD. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ __change_page_attr(unsigned long address split = split_large_page(address, prot, ref_prot2); if (!split) return -ENOMEM; + pgprot_val(ref_prot2) &= ~_PAGE_NX; set_pte(kpte, mk_pte(split, ref_prot2)); kpte_page = split; } -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/