[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "xtensa: fix kmap_prot definition" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Jan 7 10:30:25 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    xtensa: fix kmap_prot definition

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt4.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From e9e47e39753a41244462be783b711e6bc0b09660 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 03:04:24 +0300
Subject: xtensa: fix kmap_prot definition

commit ff009ab6d4d4581b62fa055ab6233133aca25ab8 upstream.

Replace PAGE_KERNEL with PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC to allow copy_to_user_page
invalidate icache for pages mapped with kmap.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/xtensa/include/asm/highmem.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/highmem.h b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/highmem.h
index 2653ef5d55f1..694113314a77 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/highmem.h
+++ b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/highmem.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #define PKMAP_NR(virt)		(((virt) - PKMAP_BASE) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
 #define PKMAP_ADDR(nr)		(PKMAP_BASE + ((nr) << PAGE_SHIFT))

-#define kmap_prot		PAGE_KERNEL
+#define kmap_prot		PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC

 extern pte_t *pkmap_page_table;

--
2.1.4





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