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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Tomas Racek <tracek@redhat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Ben Jencks <ben@bjencks.net>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [ 30/33] x86/alternatives: Fix p6 nops on non-modular kernels
Date: Thu,  4 Oct 2012 14:26:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121004210602.236827150@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121004210558.383865383@linuxfoundation.org>

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

commit cb09cad44f07044d9810f18f6f9a6a6f3771f979 upstream.

Probably a leftover from the early days of self-patching, p6nops
are marked __initconst_or_module, which causes them to be
discarded in a non-modular kernel.  If something later triggers
patching, it will overwrite kernel code with garbage.

Reported-by: Tomas Racek <tracek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5034AE84.90708@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Jencks <ben@bjencks.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static const unsigned char * const k7_no
 #endif
 
 #ifdef P6_NOP1
-static const unsigned char  __initconst_or_module p6nops[] =
+static const unsigned char p6nops[] =
 {
 	P6_NOP1,
 	P6_NOP2,



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-04 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-04 21:26 [ 00/33] 3.0.45-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 01/33] vfs: dcache: fix deadlock in tree traversal Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 02/33] dm: handle requests beyond end of device instead of using BUG_ON Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 03/33] USB: option: blacklist QMI interface on ZTE MF683 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 04/33] USB: ftdi_sio: add TIAO USB Multi-Protocol Adapter (TUMPA) support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 05/33] USB: qcaux: add Pantech vendor class match Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 06/33] staging: speakup_soft: Fix reading of init string Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 07/33] staging: comedi: s626: dont dereference insn->data Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 08/33] staging: comedi: jr3_pci: fix iomem dereference Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 09/33] staging: comedi: dont dereference user memory for INSN_INTTRIG Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 10/33] staging: comedi: fix memory leak for saved channel list Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 11/33] Remove BUG_ON from n_tty_read() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 12/33] TTY: ttyprintk, dont touch behind tty->write_buf Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 13/33] serial: pl011: handle corruption at high clock speeds Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 14/33] serial: set correct baud_base for EXSYS EX-41092 Dual 16950 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 15/33] b43legacy: Fix crash on unload when firmware not available Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 16/33] firmware: Add missing attributes to EFI variable attribute print out from sysfs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 17/33] xhci: Intel Panther Point BEI quirk Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 18/33] n_gsm: added interlocking for gsm_data_lock for certain code paths Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 19/33] coredump: prevent double-free on an error path in core dumper Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 20/33] Increase XHCI suspend timeout to 16ms Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 21/33] n_gsm: memory leak in uplink error path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 22/33] UBI: fix autoresize handling in R/O mode Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 23/33] SCSI: ibmvscsi: Fix host config length field overflow Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 24/33] SCSI: hpsa: Use LUN reset instead of target reset Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 25/33] can: mscan-mpc5xxx: fix return value check in mpc512x_can_get_clock() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 26/33] IPoIB: Fix use-after-free of multicast object Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 27/33] IB/srp: Fix use-after-free in srp_reset_req() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 28/33] IB/srp: Avoid having aborted requests hang Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 29/33] isci: fix isci_pci_probe() generates warning on efi failure path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 31/33] PCI: honor child buses add_size in hot plug configuration Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 32/33] SCSI: scsi_remove_target: fix softlockup regression on hot remove Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` [ 33/33] SCSI: scsi_dh_alua: Enable STPG for unavailable ports Greg Kroah-Hartman

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