From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vm86 segfaults with NX bit
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:58:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081120085844.6f158e08@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hmyfu9zl1.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:39:06 +0100
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> X guys reported that VESA driver segfaults in vm86 mode with a kernel
> with CONFIG_X86_PAE, and it turned to be the NX bit. See Novell
> bugzilla #443440:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443440
>
> I can confirm that the latest 2.6.28-rc still causes the same problem,
> and it disappears when booted with noexec=off option.
>
> Also, when NX bit is reset for the first 1MB (or smaller) in
> do_sys_vm86(), it also works as expected. But I have little clue
> where to restore the bit again.
>
> Any good suggestions / solutions?
>
did the code that mapped this memory setup use PROT_EXEC ?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-20 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-20 15:39 vm86 segfaults with NX bit Takashi Iwai
2008-11-20 15:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-20 16:00 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-11-20 16:05 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-11-20 16:58 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-11-20 17:01 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-11-20 17:05 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-11-20 21:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-21 11:38 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-11-21 17:42 ` Egbert Eich
2008-11-22 10:20 ` Takashi Iwai
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