On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 22:26:54 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Allright. The mmap in question is in the x86-common.c file in libx86,
Klaus S. Madsen wrote:Klaus, could you send your .config as well? Lets make sure that NX is even relevant in this context.open("/dev/mem", O_RDWR) = 5^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
mmap2(NULL, 1282, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED, 5, 0) = 0
mmap2(0xa0000, 393216, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED, 5, 0xa0) = 0xa0000
close(5) = 0This is the VGA BIOS being mapped, it's mapped PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, but no PROT_EXEC; if the kernel is NX-capable it *should* segfault trying to execute out of this area, which is exactly what will happen when vm86 executes INT 10h.
ioperm(0, 0x400, 0x1) = 0
iopl(0x3) = 0
access("/sys/bus/pci", R_OK) = 0
write(1, "Calling get_mode\n", 17) = 17
vm86(0x1, 0xb7f14ccc, 0xb7f14830, 0xc000, 0x18b6 <unfinished ...>
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
If we can find that mmap() in the s2ram source code and add PROT_EXEC to it, it would be interesting.
and adding PROT_EXEC to it solves the problem.
I have attached my .config.
The only thing I don't understand is why this is suddenly a problem with
2.6.25, and not with 2.6.24? Is there a bug in 2.6.24 and previously
that allows real-mode execution of non-executable pages?