From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] xen: don't drop NX bit
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:42:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <485651A0.9080705@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48565028.6090907@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> When converting the pfn/mfn in a pagetable entry, make sure we mask
> out the protection flags properly. Formerly, this code was losing the
> NX bit, and not dealing with extra Xen-defined software flags in ptes.
>
> Because NX is now enforced properly, we must put the hypercall page
> into the .text segment so that it is executable.
Oops, ignore this. This depends on another unposted patch. I'll repost
shortly.
J
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2008-06-16 11:36 [PATCH BUGFIX] xen: don't drop NX bit Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-16 11:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
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