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x86, vsyscall: fix the oops crash with __pa_vsymbol()
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Appended patch fixes an oops while changing the vsyscall sysctl.
I am sure no one tested this code before integrating into mainline :(

BTW, using ioremap() in vsyscall_sysctl_change() to get the virtual
address of a kernel symbol sounds like an over kill.. I wonder if we
can define a simple __va_vsymbol() which will return directly the
kernel direct mapping. comments in the code which says gcc has trouble
with __va(__pa()) sounds bogus to me. __pa() on a vsyscall address will
not work anyhow :(

And also, the whole nop out syscall in vsyscall page infrastructure
(vsyscall_sysctl_change()) is added to make some attacks difficult,
and yet I don't see this nop out being done by default. This area
requires more cleanups?

Fix an oops with __pa_vsymbol(). VSYSCALL_FIRST_PAGE is a fixmap index.
We want the starting virtual address of the vsyscall page and not the index.

[ mingo: arch/x86 adaptation ]

Reported-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Siddha, Suresh B authored and Thomas Gleixner committed Oct 19, 2007
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
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({unsigned long v; \
extern char __vsyscall_0; \
asm("" : "=r" (v) : "0" (x)); \
((v - VSYSCALL_FIRST_PAGE) + __pa_symbol(&__vsyscall_0)); })
((v - VSYSCALL_START) + __pa_symbol(&__vsyscall_0)); })

/*
* vsyscall_gtod_data contains data that is :
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