[PATCH] x86_64: fix kernel rodata NX setting

From: Pekka Paalanen
Date: Mon Apr 21 2008 - 14:36:09 EST


Without CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE, mark_rodata_ro() would mark a wrong
number of pages as no-execute. The bug was introduced in the patch
"ftrace: dont write protect kernel text". The symptom was machine reboot
after a CPU hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@xxxxxx>
---

Is this ok? At least it works for me:

[ 294.564032] CPU 1 is now offline
[ 294.564359] lockdep: fixing up alternatives.
[ 294.565799] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 306.626760] lockdep: fixing up alternatives.
[ 306.627080] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
[ 306.638566] Booting processor 1/1 ip 6000
[ 306.653079] Initializing CPU#1
[ 306.736556] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3991.08 BogoMIPS (lpj=6649734)
[ 306.739889] CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
[ 306.739889] CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
[ 306.739889] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
[ 306.739889] CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
[ 306.739889] x86: PAT support disabled.
[ 306.741127] CPU1: <6>Clockevents: could not switch to one-shot mode: lapic is not functional.
[ 306.743865] Could not switch to high resolution mode on CPU 1
[ 306.750580] Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz stepping 0a

arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 7851773..d7ae30a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
* The rodata section (but not the kernel text!) should also be
* not-executable.
*/
- set_memory_nx(rodata_start, (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ set_memory_nx(rodata_start, (end - rodata_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);

rodata_test();

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1.5.3.7

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