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authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2012-08-22 14:03:48 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-10-07 19:27:27 +0400
commit368d53159311622b2555a34666f8ecd7ab8da765 (patch)
treed2292f956eaeb174b8eb40642f25f9aa94cdb9a4
parent42cc576bf229579bea30acb0a2e41e44c77a2901 (diff)
downloadlinux-368d53159311622b2555a34666f8ecd7ab8da765.tar.xz
x86/alternatives: Fix p6 nops on non-modular kernels
commit cb09cad44f07044d9810f18f6f9a6a6f3771f979 upstream. Probably a leftover from the early days of self-patching, p6nops are marked __initconst_or_module, which causes them to be discarded in a non-modular kernel. If something later triggers patching, it will overwrite kernel code with garbage. Reported-by: Tomas Racek <tracek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5034AE84.90708@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Ben Jencks <ben@bjencks.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index dfabea4de417..4c734e6e5877 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static const unsigned char * const k7_nops[ASM_NOP_MAX+2] =
#endif
#ifdef P6_NOP1
-static const unsigned char __initconst_or_module p6nops[] =
+static const unsigned char p6nops[] =
{
P6_NOP1,
P6_NOP2,