From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: broken CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO on i386
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:06:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D090A0.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
After updating several machines to 2.6.20, I can't boot anymore the single
one of them that supports the NX bit and is configured as a 32-bit system.
My understanding is that the VDSO changes in 2.6.20-rc7 were not fully
cooked, in that with that config option enabled VDSO_SYM(x) now equals
x, meaning that an address in the fixmap area is now being passed to
apps via AT_SYSINFO. However, the page is mapped with PAGE_READONLY
rather than PAGE_READONLY_EXEC.
I'm not certain whether having app code go through the fixmap area is
intended, but in case it is here is the simple patch that makes things work
again.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
--- linux-2.6.20/arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c 2007-02-04 19:44:54.000000000 +0100
+++ 2.6.20/arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c 2007-02-12 16:01:29.000000000 +0100
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ int __init sysenter_setup(void)
syscall_page = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO
- __set_fixmap(FIX_VDSO, __pa(syscall_page), PAGE_READONLY);
+ __set_fixmap(FIX_VDSO, __pa(syscall_page), PAGE_READONLY_EXEC);
printk("Compat vDSO mapped to %08lx.\n", __fix_to_virt(FIX_VDSO));
#endif
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