x86, nx: Don't force pages RW when setting NX bits
authorMatthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:11:45 +0000 (21:11 +0100)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 3 Feb 2011 00:02:36 +0000 (16:02 -0800)
Xen want page table pages read only.

But the initial page table (from head_*.S) live in .data or .bss.

That was broken by 64edc8ed5ffae999d8d413ba006850e9e34166cb.  There is
absolutely no reason to force these pages RW after they have already
been marked RO.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c

index 8b830ca14ac46c08facc1a848ddcb3c42c0d56cf..d343b3c81f3c1e79a7a4f21eb51dc4672f7a1c9b 100644 (file)
@@ -256,7 +256,6 @@ static inline pgprot_t static_protections(pgprot_t prot, unsigned long address,
                                   unsigned long pfn)
 {
        pgprot_t forbidden = __pgprot(0);
-       pgprot_t required = __pgprot(0);
 
        /*
         * The BIOS area between 640k and 1Mb needs to be executable for
@@ -282,12 +281,6 @@ static inline pgprot_t static_protections(pgprot_t prot, unsigned long address,
        if (within(pfn, __pa((unsigned long)__start_rodata) >> PAGE_SHIFT,
                   __pa((unsigned long)__end_rodata) >> PAGE_SHIFT))
                pgprot_val(forbidden) |= _PAGE_RW;
-       /*
-        * .data and .bss should always be writable.
-        */
-       if (within(address, (unsigned long)_sdata, (unsigned long)_edata) ||
-           within(address, (unsigned long)__bss_start, (unsigned long)__bss_stop))
-               pgprot_val(required) |= _PAGE_RW;
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA)
        /*
@@ -327,7 +320,6 @@ static inline pgprot_t static_protections(pgprot_t prot, unsigned long address,
 #endif
 
        prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) & ~pgprot_val(forbidden));
-       prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) | pgprot_val(required));
 
        return prot;
 }