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When setting up permissions on kernel memory at boot, the end of the PMD that was split from bss remained executable. It should be NX like the rest. This performs a PMD alignment instead of a PAGE alignment to get the correct span of memory. Before: ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]--- ... 0xffffffff8202d000-0xffffffff82200000 1868K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82200000-0xffffffff82c00000 10M RW PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffffffff82c00000-0xffffffff82df5000 2004K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82df5000-0xffffffff82e00000 44K RW GLB x pte 0xffffffff82e00000-0xffffffffc0000000 978M pmd After: ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]--- ... 0xffffffff8202d000-0xffffffff82200000 1868K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82200000-0xffffffff82e00000 12M RW PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffffffff82e00000-0xffffffffc0000000 978M pmd [ tglx: Changed it to roundup(_brk_end, PMD_SIZE) and added a comment. We really should unmap the reminder along with the holes caused by init,initdata etc. but thats a different issue ] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114194737.GA3091@www.outflux.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>