[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: generic x86-64 bugfix

Bug fix required for the .rodata work on x86-64:

when change_page_attr() and friends need to break up a 2Mb page into 4Kb
pages, it always set the NX bit on the PMD, which causes the cpu to consider
the entire 2Mb region to be NX regardless of the actual PTE perms.  This is
fine in general, with one big exception: the 2Mb page that covers the last
part of the kernel .text!  The fix is to not invent a new permission for the
new PMD entry, but to just inherit the existing one minus the PSE bit.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c
index b90e8fe9eeb..35f1f1aab06 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ __change_page_attr(unsigned long address, unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot,
         pte_t *kpte; 
         struct page *kpte_page;
         unsigned kpte_flags;
+        pgprot_t ref_prot2;
         kpte = lookup_address(address);
         if (!kpte) return 0;
         kpte_page = virt_to_page(((unsigned long)kpte) & PAGE_MASK);
@@ -140,10 +141,14 @@ __change_page_attr(unsigned long address, unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot,
                          * split_large_page will take the reference for this change_page_attr
                          * on the split page.
                          */
-                        struct page *split = split_large_page(address, prot, ref_prot); 
+
+                        struct page *split;
+                        ref_prot2 = __pgprot(pgprot_val(pte_pgprot(*lookup_address(address))) & ~(1<<_PAGE_BIT_PSE));
+
+                        split = split_large_page(address, prot, ref_prot2);
                         if (!split)
                                 return -ENOMEM;
-                        set_pte(kpte,mk_pte(split, ref_prot));
+                        set_pte(kpte,mk_pte(split, ref_prot2));
                         kpte_page = split;
                 }       
                 get_page(kpte_page);