Re: vm86 segfaults with NX bit

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:58:44 -0800,
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

A good question...
Luc, Egbert, how does VESA driver handle it?


Takashi