x86_64: fix kernel rodata NX setting
authorPekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Mon, 12 May 2008 19:21:01 +0000 (21:21 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 23 May 2008 19:53:07 +0000 (21:53 +0200)
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@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c

index 41824e7..295be1d 100644 (file)
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ 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();