Hi,
In arch/arm/kernel/traps.c:set_tls() and arch/arm/include/asm/tls.h,
some configurations allow for a assignment of address 0xffff0ff0. This
address falls within the MT_HIGH_VECTORS mapping setup in
devicemaps_init(). That mapping is explicitly made read-only. Thus, the
kernel takes a segfault when writing in set_tls().
It looks like this disparity may have been introduced in this commit:
commit 36bb94ba36f332de767cfaa3af6a5136435a3a9c
Author: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Nov 16 08:40:36 2010 +0000
ARM: pgtable: provide RDONLY page table bit rather than WRITE bit
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Is there a reason this mapping must be read-only? Perhaps we could apply
write access for these special cases only?
Thanks,
Mike
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