This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-fix-bit-corruption-at-cpu-resume-time.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 5e427ec2d066b48a5c27b3a5a3315f7e4e729077 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 11:36:03 -0700
Subject: x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time
From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
commit 5e427ec2d066b48a5c27b3a5a3315f7e4e729077 upstream.
In commit 78d77df71510 ("x86-64, init: Do not set NX bits on non-NX
capable hardware") we added the early_pmd_flags that gets the NX bit set
when a CPU supports NX. However, the new variable was marked __initdata,
because the main _use_ of this is in an __init routine.
However, the bit setting happens from secondary_startup_64(), which is
called not only at bootup, but on every secondary CPU start. Including
resuming from STR and at CPU hotplug time. So the value cannot be
__initdata.
Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
extern pgd_t early_level4_pgt[PTRS_PER_PGD];
extern pmd_t early_dynamic_pgts[EARLY_DYNAMIC_PAGE_TABLES][PTRS_PER_PMD];
static unsigned int __initdata next_early_pgt = 2;
-pmdval_t __initdata early_pmd_flags = __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE & ~(_PAGE_GLOBAL |
_PAGE_NX);
+pmdval_t early_pmd_flags = __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE & ~(_PAGE_GLOBAL | _PAGE_NX);
/* Wipe all early page tables except for the kernel symbol map */
static void __init reset_early_page_tables(void)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.9/x86-fix-bit-corruption-at-cpu-resume-time.patch
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