Commit 7e3cd6f6 authored by Jan Beulich's avatar Jan Beulich Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

i386: Fix broken CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO on i386

After updating several machines to 2.6.20, I can't boot  anymore the single
one of them that supports the NX bit and is configured as a 32-bit system.

My understanding is that the VDSO changes in 2.6.20-rc7 were not fully
cooked, in that with that config option enabled VDSO_SYM(x) now equals
x, meaning that an address in the fixmap area is now being passed to
apps via AT_SYSINFO. However, the page is mapped with PAGE_READONLY
rather than PAGE_READONLY_EXEC.

I'm not certain whether having app code go through the fixmap area is
intended, but in case it is here is the simple patch that makes things work
again.

Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 84cb9c51
......@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ int __init sysenter_setup(void)
syscall_page = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO
__set_fixmap(FIX_VDSO, __pa(syscall_page), PAGE_READONLY);
__set_fixmap(FIX_VDSO, __pa(syscall_page), PAGE_READONLY_EXEC);
printk("Compat vDSO mapped to %08lx.\n", __fix_to_virt(FIX_VDSO));
#endif
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