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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/setup.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index c95b9ac5a457..249981bf3d8a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -756,6 +756,30 @@ dump_kernel_offset(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long v, void *p) return 0; } +void x86_configure_nx(void) +{ + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NX)) + __supported_pte_mask |= _PAGE_NX; + else + __supported_pte_mask &= ~_PAGE_NX; +} + +static void __init x86_report_nx(void) +{ + if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NX)) { + printk(KERN_NOTICE "Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection " + "missing in CPU!\n"); + } else { +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || defined(CONFIG_X86_PAE) + printk(KERN_INFO "NX (Execute Disable) protection: active\n"); +#else + /* 32bit non-PAE kernel, NX cannot be used */ + printk(KERN_NOTICE "Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection " + "cannot be enabled: non-PAE kernel!\n"); +#endif + } +} + /* * Determine if we were loaded by an EFI loader. If so, then we have also been * passed the efi memmap, systab, etc., so we should use these data structures @@ -896,9 +920,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) /* * x86_configure_nx() is called before parse_early_param() to detect * whether hardware doesn't support NX (so that the early EHCI debug - * console setup can safely call set_fixmap()). It may then be called - * again from within noexec_setup() during parsing early parameters - * to honor the respective command line option. + * console setup can safely call set_fixmap()). */ x86_configure_nx(); |