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

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FYI, this patch also clean applied to 4.9.y tree. I guess I don't need
to send another one to 4.9 tree. Just applied it to 4.9 should be
fine.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 1:48 PM, lepton <ytht.net@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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