From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix oops when loading modules
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:21:10 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18906.50854.952483.793456@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
This fixes a problem reported by Sean MacLennan where loading any
module would cause an oops. We weren't marking the pages containing
the module text as having hardware execute permission, due to a bug
introduced in commit 8d1cf34e ("powerpc/mm: Tweak PTE bit combination
definitions"), hence trying to execute the module text caused an
exception on processors that support hardware execute permission.
This adds _PAGE_HWEXEC to the definitions of PAGE_KERNEL_X and
PAGE_KERNEL_ROX to fix this problem.
Reported-by: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
index d9740e8..a7e210b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
@@ -151,9 +151,11 @@ extern unsigned long bad_call_to_PMD_PAGE_SIZE(void);
_PAGE_NO_CACHE)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_NCG __pgprot(_PAGE_BASE_NC | _PAGE_KERNEL_RW | \
_PAGE_NO_CACHE | _PAGE_GUARDED)
-#define PAGE_KERNEL_X __pgprot(_PAGE_BASE | _PAGE_KERNEL_RW | _PAGE_EXEC)
+#define PAGE_KERNEL_X __pgprot(_PAGE_BASE | _PAGE_KERNEL_RW | _PAGE_EXEC | \
+ _PAGE_HWEXEC)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_RO __pgprot(_PAGE_BASE | _PAGE_KERNEL_RO)
-#define PAGE_KERNEL_ROX __pgprot(_PAGE_BASE | _PAGE_KERNEL_RO | _PAGE_EXEC)
+#define PAGE_KERNEL_ROX __pgprot(_PAGE_BASE | _PAGE_KERNEL_RO | _PAGE_EXEC | \
+ _PAGE_HWEXEC)
/* Protection used for kernel text. We want the debuggers to be able to
* set breakpoints anywhere, so don't write protect the kernel text
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2009-04-07 3:21 Paul Mackerras [this message]
2009-04-07 12:19 ` [PATCH] powerpc: Fix oops when loading modules Geert Uytterhoeven
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