From 3c1df68b848b39270752ff8d4b956cc4a4dce0f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:34:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 7 +++++++ arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c index 0d3369b..4d11565 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)); diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c index 9b69fa5..f97ace7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c @@ -570,6 +570,7 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end) * 2Mb kernel mapping just for this debug feature. */ if (begin >= __START_KERNEL_map) { + set_memory_rw(begin, (end - begin)/PAGE_SIZE); set_memory_np(begin, (end - begin)/PAGE_SIZE); set_memory_nx(begin, (end - begin)/PAGE_SIZE); } -- 2.7.4