4.2.8-ckt4 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
commit 3625c2c234ef66acf21a72d47a5ffa94f6c5ebf2 upstream.
For PAE kernels "unsigned long" is not suitable to hold page protection
flags, since _PAGE_NX doesn't fit there. This is the reason for quite a
few W+X pages getting reported as insecure during boot (observed namely
for the entire initrd range).
Fixes: 281d4078be ("x86: Make page cache mode a real type")
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <JGross@xxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56A7635602000078000CAFF1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
index 13f310b..055bcb1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
@@ -337,20 +337,18 @@ static inline enum page_cache_mode pgprot2cachemode(pgprot_t pgprot)
}
static inline pgprot_t pgprot_4k_2_large(pgprot_t pgprot)
{
+ pgprotval_t val = pgprot_val(pgprot);
pgprot_t new;
- unsigned long val;
- val = pgprot_val(pgprot);
pgprot_val(new) = (val & ~(_PAGE_PAT | _PAGE_PAT_LARGE)) |
((val & _PAGE_PAT) << (_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE - _PAGE_BIT_PAT));
return new;
}
static inline pgprot_t pgprot_large_2_4k(pgprot_t pgprot)
{
+ pgprotval_t val = pgprot_val(pgprot);
pgprot_t new;
- unsigned long val;
- val = pgprot_val(pgprot);
pgprot_val(new) = (val & ~(_PAGE_PAT | _PAGE_PAT_LARGE)) |
((val & _PAGE_PAT_LARGE) >>
(_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE - _PAGE_BIT_PAT));
--
1.9.1
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