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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>2009-07-01 17:37:22 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-07-30 14:39:42 -0700
commitc242f9dd84db9159fd64b9d254660eabd90503b0 (patch)
tree1adf0ff3b2fba65bdf0ee33367f6a007d5ea4079 /arch
parent7a8f2ee411cc5ab729466f574da09ea8d74d709d (diff)
x86: Fix fixmap page order for FIX_TEXT_POKE0,1
commit 12b9d7ccb841805e347fec8f733f368f43ddba40 upstream. Masami reported: > Since the fixmap pages are assigned higher address to lower, > text_poke() has to use it with inverted order (FIX_TEXT_POKE1 > to FIX_TEXT_POKE0). I prefer to just invert the order of the fixmap declaration. It's simpler and more straightforward. Backward fixmaps seems to be used by both x86 32 and 64. It's really rare but a nasty bug, because it only hurts when instructions to patch are crossing a page boundary. If this happens, the fixmap write accesses will spill on the following fixmap, which may very well crash the system. And this does not crash the system, it could leave illegal instructions in place. Thanks Masami for finding this. It seems to have crept into the 2.6.30-rc series, so this calls for a -stable inclusion. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090701213722.GH19926@Krystal> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
index 3eb0f79a5320..7b2d71df39a6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ enum fixed_addresses {
#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
FIX_PARAVIRT_BOOTMAP,
#endif
- FIX_TEXT_POKE0, /* reserve 2 pages for text_poke() */
- FIX_TEXT_POKE1,
+ FIX_TEXT_POKE1, /* reserve 2 pages for text_poke() */
+ FIX_TEXT_POKE0, /* first page is last, because allocation is backward */
__end_of_permanent_fixed_addresses,
/*
* 256 temporary boot-time mappings, used by early_ioremap(),