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authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2012-08-22 13:03:48 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-10-07 08:32:29 -0700
commit4a3bb116ee8ab2f912fdb6d2af40028b15825151 (patch)
treed83784241a15dd195a8d15c9c14241a645c60fca /arch/x86
parentb4d4dc33a372aaee2205d4506b4c7ead6275067d (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-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 73ef56c5a8b3..bda833c5f6ce 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ 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,