1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index c0e28a13de7d..947f42abe820 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -364,8 +364,9 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
         /*
          * 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.
+         * writeable and non-executable first.
          */
+        set_memory_nx(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
         set_memory_rw(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 
         printk(KERN_INFO "Freeing %s: %luk freed\n", what, (end - begin) >> 10);