Merge 3.18-rc7 into tty-next

This resolves the merge issue with drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 4cb8763868fc..4e5dfec750fc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
 	unsigned long end = (unsigned long) &__end_rodata_hpage_align;
 	unsigned long text_end = PFN_ALIGN(&__stop___ex_table);
 	unsigned long rodata_end = PFN_ALIGN(&__end_rodata);
-	unsigned long all_end = PFN_ALIGN(&_end);
+	unsigned long all_end;
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "Write protecting the kernel read-only data: %luk\n",
 	       (end - start) >> 10);
@@ -1134,7 +1134,16 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
 	/*
 	 * The rodata/data/bss/brk section (but not the kernel text!)
 	 * should also be not-executable.
+	 *
+	 * We align all_end to PMD_SIZE because the existing mapping
+	 * is a full PMD. If we would align _brk_end to PAGE_SIZE we
+	 * split the PMD and the reminder between _brk_end and the end
+	 * of the PMD will remain mapped executable.
+	 *
+	 * Any PMD which was setup after the one which covers _brk_end
+	 * has been zapped already via cleanup_highmem().
 	 */
+	all_end = roundup((unsigned long)_brk_end, PMD_SIZE);
 	set_memory_nx(rodata_start, (all_end - rodata_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 
 	rodata_test();