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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c15
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index 8ca0d8566fc..7be47d1a97e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -508,18 +508,13 @@ static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address)
#endif
/*
- * Install the new, split up pagetable. Important details here:
+ * Install the new, split up pagetable.
*
- * On Intel the NX bit of all levels must be cleared to make a
- * page executable. See section 4.13.2 of Intel 64 and IA-32
- * Architectures Software Developer's Manual).
- *
- * Mark the entry present. The current mapping might be
- * set to not present, which we preserved above.
+ * We use the standard kernel pagetable protections for the new
+ * pagetable protections, the actual ptes set above control the
+ * primary protection behavior:
*/
- ref_prot = pte_pgprot(pte_mkexec(pte_clrhuge(*kpte)));
- pgprot_val(ref_prot) |= _PAGE_PRESENT;
- __set_pmd_pte(kpte, address, mk_pte(base, ref_prot));
+ __set_pmd_pte(kpte, address, mk_pte(base, __pgprot(_KERNPG_TABLE)));
base = NULL;
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