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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>2014-03-13 16:01:27 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2014-03-13 16:20:17 -0700
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x86_32, mm: Remove user bit from identity map PDE
The only reason that the user bit was set was to support userspace access to the compat vDSO in the fixmap. The compat vDSO is gone, so the user bit can be removed. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e240a977f3c7cbd525a091fd6521499ec4b8e94f.1394751608.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h7
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
index 1aa9ccd43223..757f9c40321b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
@@ -214,13 +214,8 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_IDENT_LARGE_EXEC __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC
#else
-/*
- * For PDE_IDENT_ATTR include USER bit. As the PDE and PTE protection
- * bits are combined, this will alow user to access the high address mapped
- * VDSO in the presence of CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO
- */
#define PTE_IDENT_ATTR 0x003 /* PRESENT+RW */
-#define PDE_IDENT_ATTR 0x067 /* PRESENT+RW+USER+DIRTY+ACCESSED */
+#define PDE_IDENT_ATTR 0x063 /* PRESENT+RW+DIRTY+ACCESSED */
#define PGD_IDENT_ATTR 0x001 /* PRESENT (no other attributes) */
#endif