linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 136/152] Revert "x86, mm: Set NX across entire PMD at boot"

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Message-ID: <lsq.1424137613.543075755@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 17 Feb 2015 01:46:53 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 136/152] Revert "x86, mm: Set NX across entire PMD at
 boot"

3.2.67-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

This reverts commit a5c187d92d2ce30315f333b9dff33af832e8b443 which
was commit 45e2a9d4701d8c624d4a4bcdd1084eae31e92f58 upstream.

The previous commit caused suspend/resume to stop working on at least
some systems - specifically, the system would reboot when woken.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
 	unsigned long text_end = PAGE_ALIGN((unsigned long) &__stop___ex_table);
 	unsigned long rodata_end = PAGE_ALIGN((unsigned long) &__end_rodata);
 	unsigned long data_start = (unsigned long) &_sdata;
-	unsigned long all_end;
+	unsigned long all_end = PFN_ALIGN(&_end);
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "Write protecting the kernel read-only data: %luk\n",
 	       (end - start) >> 10);
@@ -789,16 +789,7 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
 	/*
 	 * The rodata/data/bss/brk section (but not the kernel text!)
 	 * should also be not-executable.
-	 *
-	 * We align all_end to PMD_SIZE because the existing mapping
-	 * is a full PMD. If we would align _brk_end to PAGE_SIZE we
-	 * split the PMD and the reminder between _brk_end and the end
-	 * of the PMD will remain mapped executable.
-	 *
-	 * Any PMD which was setup after the one which covers _brk_end
-	 * has been zapped already via cleanup_highmem().
 	 */
-	all_end = roundup((unsigned long)_brk_end, PMD_SIZE);
 	set_memory_nx(rodata_start, (all_end - rodata_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 
 	rodata_test();

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