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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] Linux 4.4 MW: Boot under Xen fails with CONFIG_DEBUG_WX enabled: RIP: ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core
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On 11/05/2015 04:13 AM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>
> It makes "cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables" work and
> prevents a kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_WX=y from crashing at boot.

Great. Our nightly runs also failed spectacularly due to this bug.

>
> It now does give a warning about an insecure W+X mapping, so
> CONFIG_DEBUG_WX=y
> seems to be working. No idea how to interpret it though (and if it's a
> legit
> warning).
>
> --
> Sander
>
> [ 19.034706] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1104K (ffffffff822fc000 -
> ffffffff82410000)
> [ 19.041339] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 18432k
> [ 19.052596] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1144K (ffff880001ae2000 -
> ffff880001c00000)
> [ 19.060285] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1560K (ffff88000207a000 -
> ffff880002200000)
> [ 19.067079] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 19.073931] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 1 at
> arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:225 note_page+0x619/0x7e0()

Yes, this apparently is a known issue: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/4/476

-boris




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