x86/mm: Fix types used in pgprot cacheability flags translations
authorJan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:15:18 +0000 (04:15 -0700)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:05:36 +0000 (21:05 +0100)
For PAE kernels "unsigned long" is not suitable to hold page protection
flags, since _PAGE_NX doesn't fit there. This is the reason for quite a
few W+X pages getting reported as insecure during boot (observed namely
for the entire initrd range).

Fixes: 281d4078be ("x86: Make page cache mode a real type")
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56A7635602000078000CAFF1@prv-mh.provo.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h

index a471cad..79c9185 100644 (file)
@@ -363,20 +363,18 @@ static inline enum page_cache_mode pgprot2cachemode(pgprot_t pgprot)
 }
 static inline pgprot_t pgprot_4k_2_large(pgprot_t pgprot)
 {
+       pgprotval_t val = pgprot_val(pgprot);
        pgprot_t new;
-       unsigned long val;
 
-       val = pgprot_val(pgprot);
        pgprot_val(new) = (val & ~(_PAGE_PAT | _PAGE_PAT_LARGE)) |
                ((val & _PAGE_PAT) << (_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE - _PAGE_BIT_PAT));
        return new;
 }
 static inline pgprot_t pgprot_large_2_4k(pgprot_t pgprot)
 {
+       pgprotval_t val = pgprot_val(pgprot);
        pgprot_t new;
-       unsigned long val;
 
-       val = pgprot_val(pgprot);
        pgprot_val(new) = (val & ~(_PAGE_PAT | _PAGE_PAT_LARGE)) |
                          ((val & _PAGE_PAT_LARGE) >>
                           (_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE - _PAGE_BIT_PAT));