x86: make sure initmem is writable

When we free initmem, various rodata and CPA checks may have left
memory read only.. this patch ensures that the memory is writable
before we free it.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
index 0d3369b900e9..4d1156545194 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
@@ -780,6 +780,13 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
 {
         unsigned long addr;
 
+        /*
+         * We just marked the kernel text read only above, now that
+         * we are going to free part of that, we need to make that
+         * writeable first.
+         */
+        set_memory_rw(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+
         for (addr = begin; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
                 ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(addr));
                 init_page_count(virt_to_page(addr));