From: Pallipadi, Venkatesh Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:07:20 +0000 (-0700) Subject: x86, PAT, PCI: Change vma prot in pci_mmap to reflect inherited prot X-Git-Tag: v2.6.30-rc1~211^2~15^4 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9cdec049389ce2c324fd1ec508a71528a27d4a07;p=pandora-kernel.git x86, PAT, PCI: Change vma prot in pci_mmap to reflect inherited prot While looking at the issue in the thread: http://marc.info/?l=dri-devel&m=123606627824556&w=2 noticed a bug in pci PAT code and memory type setting. PCI mmap code did not set the proper protection in vma, when it inherited protection in reserve_memtype. This bug only affects the case where there exists a WC mapping before X does an mmap with /proc or /sys pci interface. This will cause X userlevel mmap from /proc or /sysfs to fail on fork. Reported-by: Kevin Winchester Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Cc: Jesse Barnes Cc: Dave Airlie Cc: LKML-Reference: <20090323190720.GA16831@linux-os.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed