2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Bernhard Walle commit 060264133b946786b4b28a1ba79e6725eaf258f3 upstream. The address provided by the SMBIOS/DMI CRU information is mapped via ioremap() in the virtual address space. However, since the address is executed (i.e. call'd), we need to set that pages as executable. Without that, I get following oops on a HP ProLiant DL385 G2 machine with BIOS from 05/29/2008 when I trigger crashdump: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc20011090c00 IP: [] 0xffffc20011090c00 PGD 12f813067 PUD 7fe6a067 PMD 7effe067 PTE 80000000fffd3173 Oops: 0011 [1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cache/index2/shared_cpu_map CPU 1 Modules linked in: autofs4 ipv6 af_packet cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave powernow_k8 fuse loop dm_mod rtc_cmos ipmi_si sg rtc_core i2c _piix4 ipmi_msghandler bnx2 sr_mod container button i2c_core hpilo joydev pcspkr rtc_lib shpchp hpwdt cdrom pci_hotplug usbhid hid ff_memless ohci_hcd ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore edd ext3 mbcache jbd fan ide_pci_generic serverworks ide_core p ata_serverworks pata_acpi cciss ata_generic libata scsi_mod dock thermal process or thermal_sys hwmon Supported: Yes Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27.5-HEAD_20081111100657-default #1 RIP: 0010:[] [] 0xffffc20011090c00 RSP: 0018:ffff88012f6f9e68 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000d02 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff88012f6f9e98 R08: 666666666666660a R09: ffffffffa1006fc0 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff88012f6f3ea8 R12: ffffc20011090c00 R13: ffff88012f6f9ee8 R14: 000000000000000e R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007ff70b29a6f0(0000) GS:ffff88012f6512c0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: ffffc20011090c00 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff88012f6f2000, task ffff88007fa8a1c0) Stack: ffffffffa0f8502b 0000000000000002 ffffffff80738d50 0000000000000000 0000000000000046 0000000000000046 00000000fffffffe ffffffffa0f852ec 0000000000000000 ffffffff804ad9a6 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 Call Trace: Inexact backtrace: [] ? asminline_call+0x2b/0x55 [hpwdt] [] hpwdt_pretimeout+0x3c/0xa0 [hpwdt] [] ? notifier_call_chain+0x29/0x4c [] ? notify_die+0x2d/0x32 [] ? default_do_nmi+0x53/0x1d9 [] ? do_nmi+0x2e/0x43 [] ? nmi+0xa2/0xd0 [] ? native_safe_halt+0x2/0x3 <> [] ? default_idle+0x38/0x54 [] ? c1e_idle+0x118/0x11c [] ? cpu_idle+0xa9/0xf1 Code: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff <55> 50 e8 00 00 00 00 58 48 2d 07 10 40 00 48 8b e8 58 e9 68 02 RIP [] 0xffffc20011090c00 RSP CR2: ffffc20011090c00 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck Cc: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" Signed-off-by: Thomas Mingarelli Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #define PCI_BIOS32_SD_VALUE 0x5F32335F /* "_32_" */ #define CRU_BIOS_SIGNATURE_VALUE 0x55524324 @@ -394,6 +395,8 @@ static void __devinit dmi_find_cru(const smbios_cru64_ptr->double_offset; cru_rom_addr = ioremap(cru_physical_address, smbios_cru64_ptr->double_length); + set_memory_x((unsigned long)cru_rom_addr & PAGE_MASK, + smbios_cru64_ptr->double_length >> PAGE_SHIFT); } } } -- 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/