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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Kees Cook
6036f373ea x86, cpu: Only CPU features determine NX capabilities
Fix the NX feature boot warning when NX is missing to correctly
reflect that BIOSes cannot disable NX now.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289414154-7829-5-git-send-email-kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-11-10 15:43:15 -08:00
Kees Cook
4b0f3b81eb x86, mm: Report state of NX protections during boot
It is possible for x86_64 systems to lack the NX bit either due to the
hardware lacking support or the BIOS having turned off the CPU capability,
so NX status should be reported.  Additionally, anyone booting NX-capable
CPUs in 32bit mode without PAE will lack NX functionality, so this change
provides feedback for that case as well.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258154897-6770-6-git-send-email-hpa@zytor.com>
2009-11-16 13:44:59 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
4763ed4d45 x86, mm: Clean up and simplify NX enablement
The 32- and 64-bit code used very different mechanisms for enabling
NX, but even the 32-bit code was enabling NX in head_32.S if it is
available.  Furthermore, we had a bewildering collection of tests for
the available of NX.

This patch:

a) merges the 32-bit set_nx() and the 64-bit check_efer() function
   into a single x86_configure_nx() function.  EFER control is left
   to the head code.

b) eliminates the nx_enabled variable entirely.  Things that need to
   test for NX enablement can verify __supported_pte_mask directly,
   and cpu_has_nx gives the supported status of NX.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
LKML-Reference: <1258154897-6770-5-git-send-email-hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
2009-11-16 13:44:59 -08:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
c44c9ec0f3 x86: split NX setup into separate file to limit unstack-protected code
Move the NX setup into a separate file so that it can be compiled
without stack-protection while leaving the rest of the mm/init code
protected.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-09-21 13:56:58 -07:00