Re: [PATCH 4.4-stable v3] kaiser: Set _PAGE_NX only if supported

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The last version is "V4" and I added it in subject.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Lepton Wu <ytht.net@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This finally resolve crash if loaded under qemu + haxm. Haitao Shan pointed
>> out that the reason of that crash is that NX bit get set for page tables.
>> It seems we missed checking if _PAGE_NX is supported in kaiser_add_user_map
>>
>> Link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2689835.html
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu <ytht.net@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hint: You might want to version your patches; otherwise it is
> difficult for the maintainer(s) to find the latest version.
>
> Note that the fix probably also applies to v4.9 as well as to older
> stable kernels.
>
> Guenter
>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c b/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c
>> index 6a7a77929a8c..8af98513d36c 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c
>> @@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ static int kaiser_add_user_map(const void *__start_addr, unsigned long size,
>>          * requires that not to be #defined to 0): so mask it off here.
>>          */
>>         flags &= ~_PAGE_GLOBAL;
>> +       if (!(__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX))
>> +               flags &= ~_PAGE_NX;
>>
>>         for (; address < end_addr; address += PAGE_SIZE) {
>>                 target_address = get_pa_from_mapping(address);
>> --
>> 2.16.0.rc1.238.g530d649a79-goog
>>



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