From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6686B7E0D for ; Fri, 14 May 2010 05:15:04 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] pte_fsl_booke: fix instruction TLB error permission check Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Kumar Gala In-Reply-To: <1273221514-8683-1-git-send-email-leoli@freescale.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 14:14:56 -0500 Message-Id: <0710E9DF-66DF-4D24-95DE-A04E6D869826@kernel.crashing.org> References: <1273221514-8683-1-git-send-email-leoli@freescale.com> To: Li Yang Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Jin Qing List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On May 7, 2010, at 3:38 AM, Li Yang wrote: > Check the user/supervisor execution permission base on the code = address. > This fixes the following oops on module loading or removing. >=20 > Unable to handle kernel paging request for instruction fetch > Faulting instruction address: 0xf938d040 > Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] >=20 > Signed-off-by: Li Yang > Signed-off-by: Jin Qing > --- > arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S | 13 ++++++++++--- > 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) applied to merge. I've updated the commit message to be a bit more clear on why we need to = do this. Thanks for figuring this out. - k=